Mathematical Thinking for GCSE Work Group
Project Code: NCP23-17
Yorkshire and the Humber Maths Hub are delighted to offer you the opportunity to take part in this National Collaborative Project. Exam boards often note that, when students come to GCSE examinations, AO2 and AO3 are frequently poorly addressed. This Work Group is designed to meet teachers’ needs in that it offers both practical and theoretical elements to address a key concern (GCSE attainment), while offering a manageable structure for collaborative CPD (the Work Group).
Mathematical thinking is one of the Five Big Ideas for teaching for mastery and this Work Group gives further opportunity to support teaching for mastery in secondary schools, while also supporting schools and colleges to address the challenges of teaching GCSE Mathematics, so that all students are prepared for progression to post-16 education.
Who is this for?
Teachers of KS4 with a wish to further develop their pedagogical and theoretical understanding of what it means to develop mathematical thinking, and practical classroom strategies to explore these ideas.
Participants will be expected to begin to lead developments from the Work Group in their own department and so should have the opportunity and authority to do this effectively.
Intended outcomes
Participant teachers will increase their experience and understanding of the role of reasoning and problem solving in the classroom; the mathematical pedagogy to support students to develop these skills; how these skills are tested at GCSE.
Maths Departments in participant schools, through collaboration, will have opportunity to reflect on key teaching and learning approaches to support mathematical thinking
Pupils will begin to demonstrate improved attitudes when they engage in mathematical thinking and have an understanding that they can tackle problems by thinking mathematically.
This is what the participants had to say about it:
"It has fundamentally changed the way I teach"
"There has been improved challenge in my lessons"
"Students have become more confident and more willing to tackle the harder multi-step questions"
"The collaboration with other schools at the workshop has been so useful"
"Staff with weak subject knowledge have developed a better understanding by looking for a reasoning approach in their planning"
The button below is to register your expression of interest, you will then receive an email from us requesting confirmation of your participation in this programme. Please note, your place will not be secured until you have provided confirmation of attendance.