Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (Core Maths Teachers) Programme
This programme seeks to address this need by helping teachers to develop the specialist knowledge to teach Core Maths effectively. The programme forms part of the overall AMSP and Maths Hubs Core Maths professional development offer.
By increasing Core Maths teaching capacity, the programme supports the national aim that it will become the norm for all students to study maths post-16.
Who can take part?
This programme is for teachers who are in the first two years of teaching Core Maths and are teaching a Core Maths class during the academic year 2024/25.
(Core Maths teachers who are more experienced and have been teaching Core Maths for three or more years would be ideal participants for Developing Core Maths Pedagogy Work Groups.)
What will you learn?
understand the philosophy of Core Maths, with its approach to teaching and learning maths through contextualised problem-solving and the application of maths to authentic problems
develop their subject knowledge in these six areas: Applying Fermi estimation and modelling; Exploring statistics; Making sense of finance; Using the pre-release materials; Developing critical analysis and Creating contextualised activities
develop their understanding of how online learning and technology can be used to support Core Maths teaching.
Sessions:
Teachers are expected to attend all programme sessions (the equivalent of three days), explore and engage with the bespoke resources of the programme, and to implement practice-based activities in between sessions to enable reflection on the pedagogical approaches they are trialling.