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Catherine Gripton

@cathgripton.bsky.social

Associate Professor Observatory for Mathematical Education University of Nottingham

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Hard copies available from @earlyed-uk.bsky.social
Online also available *free* from the ECMG website: earlymaths.org

05.07.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join @geoffwake1.bsky.social and I

28.05.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Any Y4 or Y5 teachers in Nottingham or surrounding areas? We have a couple of places on this Lesson Study project starting next week.

28.05.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spatial reasoning part 2: Developing 'body sense' - Nursery World How do children develop embodied learning? By Prof Emily Farran, Dr Catherine Gripton and Dr Andrea Lancaster

Part 2 of our Nursery World series about spatial reasoning in the early years www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...

08.02.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why games beat tests for primary maths assessment The end of the Sats requirement in key stage 1 opens up a world of opportunities for more engaging ways to assess pupils, say these experts

Our new piece on these @atmmathematics.bsky.social KS1 assessment tasks in @tesmagazine.bsky.social
@accomplishedu.bsky.social

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

27.01.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Part 1 of a series of 4 articles in Nursery World about spatial reasoning

10.01.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Social Justice special issue of ATM’s Mathematics Teaching Journal is now available online and has been made β€˜open access’ to all, so please do share with colleagues. It includes articles by Alf Coles, Pete Wright, Rose Griffiths and many more. atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...

13.12.2024 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Using picture books to support mathematical development

A quick read on early years maths and story books: www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

06.12.2024 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ECMG Early Childhood Maths Group

The UK Early Childhood Mathematics Group do not have a Bluesky account as yet … it’s coming it’s coming! But please do take a look at our website with lots of **freely available** guidance& resources for those of us working with birth-8 yr olds: earlymaths.org
And please add your suggestions below πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

05.12.2024 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Learning from lesson study <h5>Free to attend for all schools<br /></h5><h5><strong></strong></h5><p><strong></strong><strong>FREE</strong>&nbsp;online webinar focussed on analysing a research lesson from a Collaborative Lesson...

Really looking forward to our FREEΒ online webinar focussed on analysing a research lesson on fractions in Y5/6 from a Collaborative Lesson Research cycle. We will be joined by Mike Askew, Janine Blinko, Kate Eames, Stefanie Burke and Andy Tynemouth. Still time to book tinyurl.com/2xajwc8a

26.11.2024 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Yes please, thanks

25.11.2024 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Invaluable advice and support from you and the secondary expert advisory panel, as always. Thanks @matildewarden.bsky.social

20.11.2024 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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www.jmc.org.uk/2024/11/16/a...

19.11.2024 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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First Post!
Join us at this event in person in Oxford or online. Monday 25th November. Details at: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/mathem...
I’ll be drawing on our www.masteringmaths.org research to consider the mathematically disadvantaged.

17.11.2024 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

I hadn’t, thanks @helenjwc.bsky.social Super interesting. Wouldn’t it be great to extend to maths home learning environment

18.11.2024 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are interested in maths teaching and ethics, @darrenmacey.bsky.social and I are giving a talk this Wednesday on the topic, based on our book chapter, and we’d love to have you! talmo.uk/events.html

18.11.2024 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mixed year-group mathematics teaching – Mixed Age

**NOW LIVE and FREE**
The Early Childhood Mathematics Group’s guidance on teaching maths in a mixed year group classroom/setting: 🧡

mixed-age.earlymaths.org

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17.11.2024 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Maths Ed people on here that I have found…

go.bsky.app/Ngpznzk

15.11.2024 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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ECMG Early Childhood Maths Group

Excited (now I’ve actually made the decision to slink over Here) to have some convos about mathematics, earlyyears and even some politics.
Thank you for the follows πŸ‘‹

The ECMG earlymaths.org
have their bi-termly meeting tomorrow where we launch our **NEW** guidance for teaching mixed year groups

15.11.2024 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks @berniewestacott.bsky.social

15.11.2024 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mixed year-group mathematics teaching – Mixed Age

AND **HERE IT IS!**

mixed-age.earlymaths.org

15.11.2024 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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