naomidowenSep 10, 20222 min readHow very manipulativeThis lecture was all about how/when & why to use manipulatives in maths. The article by Laksi et al. (2015) was really interesting. I had...
naomidowenMay 22, 20222 min readMy reason for being.Maths reasoning seems to be about being able to explain why. It's within the National Curriculum that children can 'reason...
naomidowenMay 22, 20221 min readI'm fluent.A lot of maths seems to do with fluency. I think that's having those key facts which can just trip off the tip of your tongue when you...
naomidowenMay 16, 20222 min readI like Maths Talk. You like Maths Talk.I really like the idea of a daily Maths Talk. It seems like a fab way to build in maths understand daily. At Orleans we had morning...
naomidowenMay 10, 20221 min readThe usual line up.Reading about the way children learn to count sends me to sleep, to be honest. Maybe it was the book - Gelman and Gallistel are not the...
naomidowenMay 6, 20221 min read1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught a Fish AliveWe looked at early maths. Weirdly the EYFS only focuses on numbers. Nothing to do with shapes, measuring, etc. So you would need to look...