Course Details One of the best ways of helping pupils learn and understand maths is to get them thinking and talking about it using fun and simple maths demos, experiments and mathemagic that they can do themselves or the teacher can demonstrate in class. You can use such novel activities to not only help pupils remember and understand the maths they need to learn, but also give them practice in the higher-order creative thinking skills as well, such as applying, analysing, problem solving, reasoning and enquiry. So ‘Dr Mark’s’ lively (and entertaining!) day is full of his fun, novel and easy to deliver hands-on maths investigations, puzzles, numerical and visual brain teasers, maths tricks and other engaging activities all designed to stimulate, enrich and inspire the mathematical minds of your pupils, and get them into the higher order thinking and learning mode effectively and naturally, almost without them realising they are even doing it! In other words, to get them thinking and chatting about maths!The course will:Give you an enjoyable day and a range of tried-and-tested maths activities to take back to the class that will inspire and engage pupils about maths.Show how to effectively teach and illustrate maths theory with the use of practical, hands-on or teacher-demonstrated activities.Show a way of teaching maths that is particularly effective for stimulating the higher order creative thinking, enquiry, problem solving and reasoning process skills in pupils of a wide range of ages and abilities.Provide a range of engaging maths activities from across the curriculum, including numbers, shape,space, measurement and handling data.Show how such activities can be used in a variety of ways from quick lesson starters to full length lesson activities and even engaging homework.Provide FREE site-licensed, printable digital teaching resources detailing all the activities covered on the course and more...
One of the best ways of helping pupils learn and understand maths is to get them thinking and talking about it using fun and simple maths demos, experiments and mathemagic that they can do themselves or the teacher can demonstrate in class. You can use such novel activities to not only help pupils remember and understand the maths they need to learn, but also give them practice in the higher-order creative thinking skills as well, such as applying, analysing, problem solving, reasoning and enquiry. So ‘Dr Mark’s’ lively (and entertaining!) day is full of his fun, novel and easy to deliver hands-on maths investigations, puzzles, numerical and visual brain teasers, maths tricks and other engaging activities all designed to stimulate, enrich and inspire the mathematical minds of your pupils, and get them into the higher order thinking and learning mode effectively and naturally, almost without them realising they are even doing it! In other words, to get them thinking and chatting about maths!The course will:Give you an enjoyable day and a range of tried-and-tested maths activities to take back to the class that will inspire and engage pupils about maths.Show how to effectively teach and illustrate maths theory with the use of practical, hands-on or teacher-demonstrated activities.Show a way of teaching maths that is particularly effective for stimulating the higher order creative thinking, enquiry, problem solving and reasoning process skills in pupils of a wide range of ages and abilities.Provide a range of engaging maths activities from across the curriculum, including numbers, shape,space, measurement and handling data.Show how such activities can be used in a variety of ways from quick lesson starters to full length lesson activities and even engaging homework.Provide FREE site-licensed, printable digital teaching resources detailing all the activities covered on the course and more...
"Dr Mark’ (aka Dr Mark Biddiss) specialises in using simple, fun and novel ways of engaging both pupils and teachers alike about science and maths. Since 1997, ‘Dr Mark’ has visited many hundreds of schools with his novel and lively pupil shows, hands-on pupil workshops and teachers’ CPD/INSET sessions, and continues to do so.He has produced several innovative teachers’ and pupils’ science and maths resources, now used by thousands of teachers across the UK and overseas. He isrecommended by a number of teacher training colleges, and is a regular conference events all over the UK, including over ten years at the TES events. Dr Mark was even featured in a teachers’ TV programme about his work: ‘INSPIRATIONS: Magical Science & Maths’."