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

Useful links

Lauren Orange