Jo Austen

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

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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!! 🌊 😅

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?

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A few days left before our first Small Numbers, Big Ideas webinar! 🔢👩‍💻💻👨‍💻🧮

First up - what all primary teachers should know about counting.

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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.

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#primarymaths #eyfs #earlyyears

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...

Small Numbers, Big Ideas: Essential Concepts for Teaching Early Maths Buy Small Numbers, Big Ideas: Essential Concepts for Teaching Early Maths by Austen, Jo (ISBN: 9781036003234) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Based on Chapters 1 and 2 of Small Numbers, Big Ideas:

Kahoot Quiz on Ch1, Counting:
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Kahoot Quiz on Ch2, Composition:
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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

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:
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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

🚨 Today, we start our π Challenge Series leading up to our Friday Social on π Day, 14th March! 🎯

🧮 Use your birthday (DDMMYY) as the numerator of a fraction over 100,000. How close is it to π? 🤔

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Looking forward to this! Come along!

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Thank you Chloe!

Really enjoyed doing this session on 'forward facing' primary maths today at #TDaPELondon. Thanks very much to everyone who came. If anyone fancies seeing the slides just drop me a DM! 🧮 🔢 🧑‍💻