PRIMARY

Having almost mastered the art of the maths meeting, the time came to take on a greater role and begin to teach full lessons on the topic of place value (multiplying and diving by 10). After a further week of maths meetings and my first stand-alone SPAG lesson, I taught a block week of maths... Perhaps the most important thing I uncovered when teaching maths is schemes are not the dream you think they would be, having something generically pre-planned for you will never meet the needs of your class, everything still has to be adapted and sometimes almost changed entirely. The school's maths scheme did not account for the fact that children will work at a different pace and was not differentiated and perhaps this was the biggest learning curve of all. How do I take this scheme and ensure that the lower ability children have enough time and support to learn but the higher ability children don't rush through and become bored? I was also met with the ‘maths is so easy" response from our..