How Does Using Precise Maths Vocabulary Help Students?
Victoria Moore, primary maths lead and Year 5 teacher, Usworth Colliery Primary School, teaches in an area of high social and economic deprivation. In this podcast she explains how a mastery approach to teaching precise mathematical vocabulary is giving pupils in her school a voice.
Victoria shares her experience with the NCETM here:
Episode chapters
00:06 – Introductions and school context
02:10 – How the school’s approach to teaching maths vocabulary has changed
03:40 – The purpose of using ambitious, higher-level maths vocabulary
05:32 – The approach to vocabulary across the school
07:00 – How staff have adapted to using higher-level maths vocabulary
09:59 – The impact on pupils
13:12 – Benefits of teaching maths vocabulary for higher attainers
16:00 – Explicit teaching of mathematical vocabulary
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