@joausten.bsky.social
Primary AHT & ECT/ITT mentor in East London. Author of Small Numbers, Big Ideas: Essential Concepts for Teaching Early Maths https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Numbers-Big-Ideas-Essential/dp/103600323X
I really enjoyed this conversation with @joncripwell.bsky.social on The Primary Maths Podcast!
If you want to skip our initial chatter, skip to 18:00 for the main section on how we can make informed choices about which manipulatives to use when.
open.spotify.com/episode/5JbD...
And the winner from here and the other place was...
@toto68086883.bsky.social
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Drop me a DM with your address and I'll get it in the post!
Small Numbers, Big Ideas is turning 1! 🎂1⃣🎉🥳🍾
To celebrate, we've got another free copy to give away!
Give this a like and repost, then we'll pick a winner at random on Sunday 30th November.
www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Number...
#primarymaths #EYFS #earlyyears #keystage1 #maths
Just add a zero
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Small Numbers, Big Ideas is turning 1! 🎂1⃣🎉🥳🍾
To celebrate, we've got another free copy to give away!
Give this a like and repost, then we'll pick a winner at random on Sunday 30th November.
www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Number...
#primarymaths #EYFS #earlyyears #keystage1 #maths
A week to go until our third Small Numbers, Big Ideas webinar! 🔢 🧮👩💻
@hlearningpd.bsky.social
This time, how can we pick the right models & manipulatives for the right moment?
Tuesday 21st Oct, 6pm UK time
Sign up is free:
lnkd.in/eTM5fedd
Buy the book:
amazon.co.uk/Small-Number...
Made this for my Year 7s and Year 8s tomorrow after @joausten.bsky.social's fab session on Number Sense at #Mathsconf39. Will be very interesting to see how it goes!
#MathsToday
Glad it was useful! Also thoroughly enjoyed Rob’s activities tsunami!! 🌊 😅
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When you can't make the second screen work...get it on the TV!
Awesome first webinar with @hlearningpd.bsky.social & 100 people around the world.
We're doing it all again on 7th October. Next time - what is number sense and how can we teach it?
Sign up:
www.hachettelearning.com/events/inter...
A few days left before our first Small Numbers, Big Ideas webinar! 🔢👩💻💻👨💻🧮
First up - what all primary teachers should know about counting.
If time / timezones are tricky, you'll get 6 months' access to the recording 🎥
Sign up:
www.hachettelearning.com/events/inter...
@hlearningpd.bsky.social
Happy holidays everyone! ⛱️🌻⛵️
I've found one more copy of Small Numbers, Big Ideas to give away!
Give this a like and repost and I'll pick a winner on Sunday 17th.
www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Number...
#primarymaths #eyfs #earlyyears
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Happy holidays everyone! ⛱️🌻⛵️
I've found one more copy of Small Numbers, Big Ideas to give away!
Give this a like and repost and I'll pick a winner on Sunday 17th.
www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Number...
#primarymaths #eyfs #earlyyears
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It's the summer holidays, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Simply **repost** this post for your chance to win.
I will pick a winner on Sunday 17th August.
Good luck!
"Conveyor belt classrooms are typified by teachers who believe that the timetabled 'lesson' is a good unit of learning."
Great blog from @markmccourt.bsky.social on the importance of getting off the conveyor belt approach. Well worth reading!
www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...
Based on Chapters 1 and 2 of Small Numbers, Big Ideas:
Kahoot Quiz on Ch1, Counting:
create.kahoot.it/details/1704...
Kahoot Quiz on Ch2, Composition:
create.kahoot.it/share/small-...
Book:
www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Number...
Children forget stuff....and so do teachers!
Many schools are now using short quizzes as part of staff CPD sessions.
I've started using Kahoot to create free maths subject knowledge quizzes you can access any time.
First two are done - links below!
#primarymaths #edusky #eduskyprimary
Contactless payments have dramatically changed children's early experiences of money.
So what can we do about it? Here are some ideas for teaching money well in #EYFS that I wrote for @TeachEarlyYrs. Let me know what you think!
cdn.teachearlyyears.com/e-mag/Teach-...
#eduskyprimary #primarymaths
Schools everywhere following White Rose #primarymaths have been on decimals/fractions/percentages this term.
This virtual manipulative from @studymaths.bsky.social
is a powerful tool for live modelling and helping children see the connections. Give it a try!
mathsbot.com/tools/decima...
Yes, that's also true :) Certainly only advocating for the vertical line as a useful addition to the toolkit, not to totally replace the horizontal line
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A square split into 1000 smaller rectangles with 134 of them shaded to represent the decimal 0.134.
NEW: Decimal Square.
mathsbot.com/tools/decima...
Thanks to @joausten.bsky.social for the idea in his #MathsConf37 session.
I've got a few more features I'd like to add to this, but I'm way too tired after the weekend!
#TDaPEManchester is two weeks away!
Inspired by @markmccourt.bsky.social book, 'Teaching for Mastery', I'll be banging the drum again for a forward-facing approach to #primarymaths.
It's all for a great cause - get tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinki...
A vertical number line has natural intuition; the numbers are greater as you go up. Awesome for intro to negative numbers too.
This virtual version from @phetsims.bsky.social is a delight:
phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/nu...
(When you drag it underwater, the hang-glider becomes a scuba diver!)
A rekenrek is a hugely powerful tool to get children subitising, exploring place value of teen numbers, bonds, doubles and loads more. Here's a brilliant 1 min intro from @ncetm.bsky.social Debbie Morgan:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtb7...
@rekenrek101.bsky.social is a great source of wisdom and CPD!
Had a great time at #MathsConf37!
In my session we looked at models and manipulatives that are still underrated and underused in primary maths.
Here's a flavour of it, starting with an interactive 'to scale' multiplication square from Mathigon.
polypad.amplify.com/p/VvXls4cQH6...
We know the curriculum is too full, but finding ways to make space for spatial reasoning is super important.
Here's what I wrote about it for @teachprimarymag.bsky.social
cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
#edusky #eduskyprimary #primarymaths #EYFS
