New to teaching Core Maths Programme

Overview

These extended professional development programmes are run in partnership by Maths Hubs and the AMSP.

Primary focus: Core Maths pedagogy

The purpose of this programme is to support teachers, who are new to teaching Core Maths, in developing specialist knowledge for teaching Core Maths and to increase their confidence in teaching the course.

The programme has a primary focus on Core Maths subject knowledge and pedagogy and will be based on these six key themes which are common to all the Core Maths specifications:

Using contextualised problem-solving
Applying Fermi estimation and modelling
Developing critical analysis
Making sense of finance
Using the pre-release materials
Exploring statistics.

Technology and online teaching will be underlying themes throughout the programme.

The Maths Hubs below are offering this programme in 2022/2023:

Maths Hub	Region
Cambridge	East of England
Matrix Herts	East of England
Venn Essex	East of England
East Midlands West	East Midlands
London North East	London
London Thames	London
Turing NW	North West
Abacus NW	North West
Bucks, Berks and Oxon	South East
North East Hants and Surrey	South East
Jurassic	South West
Central	West Midlands
North Mids	West Midlands
West Yorkshire	Yorkshire and Humber
South Yorkshire	Yorkshire and Humber

Aims

Participants will apply related pedagogical approaches in their Core Maths teaching and plan sequences of lessons to promote student understanding, confidence and progression
Understand the philosophy of Core Maths, with its approach to maths through contextualised problem-solving
Develop their subject knowledge in these six areas: Contextualised problem solving; Fermi estimation and modelling; Critical analysis; Finance; Pre-release materials; Statistics
Develop their understanding of how online learning and technology can be used to support Core Maths teaching

Who will benefit from attending?

This programme is for teachers who are new to teaching Core Maths for the first time and are teaching a Core Maths class during the Autumn and Spring terms of 2021 and 2022.

Other Information

Schools/colleges must be able to commit to the full academic year’s programme. This involves a total of three days of face-to-face (or equivalent) support across the academic year, as well as classroom and school-based activity.