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Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

In this episode, Alison and Andy discuss the following:

• Andy apologises for a lack of knowledge of adjectives
• Do we take into account the difference in how children conceptualise maths to teachers?
• Clarity in the classroom - is there a difference between what the teacher thinks the lesson was vs what the student thinks the lesson was
• Move from planning what we want students to have 'done' in the lesson to how we want the students to have 'thought' in the lesson
• Give value to the students' years in maths to date
• Do we empathise enough about the transition into Y7 for our students?
• A consistent school culture can lead to consistency in classrooms and have a positive impact on teaching and learning
• Do secondary school teachers give enough credit to what students have learnt in primary schools? Spoiler alert: NO!

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

• The Balacheff article 

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Andy - @desire2undrstnd
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI

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Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

In this episode, Alison and Andy are joined by a special guest, Alison Clark-Wilson. Together they discuss the following:

• Andy learns the meaning of enigmatic!
• Why is curiosity important?
• Do we encourage students to ask why? 
• Can we build the right atmosphere in our classrooms?
• Creating a learning plate to have diverse lessons.
• Calculators as an investigative tool.
• A wall of unanswered questions - give value to student questions that are outside the curriculum.
• Are we giving space for curiosity?

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

• Graphing software - Autograph/Desmos/GeoGebra 

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Andy - @desire2undrstnd
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI
Alison C-W - @AliClarkWilson

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Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

In this episode, Alison and Andy are joined by a special guest, Vicky Osborn. Again this episode was recorded in two parts: 

Part One: Andy and Alison

• The differences between KS2 and KS3 for stakeholders
• KS3: The Wasted Years? Ofsted report 2015
• What is being done to address issues from this report? 
• Valuing the mathematical journey of our students at every stage

Part Two: Andy, Alison and Vicky

• Andy has a rant
• Vicky's experience of the transition years
• Parents as stakeholders in the transition
• Is pedagogy the same at KS2 and KS3? What is should be vs what it could be.
• How does joint planning help plan a scheme of work in KS3?
• What happens after SATs in Y6?
• Why do Year 7s put their hand up and ask what to do when they finish their page?

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

• NCETM 
• Find your local maths hub
• Ofsted report 

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Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI
Vicky - @CheerVix

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Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

This episode is in two parts. In part one, Andy and Alison discuss what they mean by mastery. In part two, they are joined by Steph Kirk, a teacher in a brand new school with just Year 7, to hear how she uses mastery as part of her teaching.

Together they discuss the following:

• The weather - again!
• The challenge and opportunity of only having Year 7 in a school
• PD in your department
• Using mastery in your planning and teaching

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

• Rekenreks
• NCETM - Mastery
• Find your local maths hub
• NCETM - Professional Development resources
• West Yorkshire Maths Hub
• Ready to progress criteria
• NCETM checkpoint resources

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Andy - @desire2undrstnd
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI
Steph - @Steph_mathsive

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Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

In this episode, Alison and Andy discuss the following:

• What do we mean by digging for the why? 
• Why we shouldn't teach tricks 
• A student led vs teacher led classroom

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

• NCETM continuity workgroups
• NCETM checkpoint resources

If you enjoyed this episode please help us reach more people by leaving us a (good and 5*!!) review :-)

You can find us on twitter:
Andy - @desire2undrstnd
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI

Our intro/outro was produced by a talented young creative - check out his Soundcloud.

Enjoyed this episode? Help us reach more people by leaving us a 5*!! review
 
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Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI

A talented young creative iingledew produced our intro/outro – check out his Soundcloud.

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Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

This episode is a chance for us (Andy and Alison) to introduce ourselves and give you an overview of the podcast series that will follow.

You can find us on twitter:
Andy - @desire2undrstnd
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI

Our intro/outro was produced by a talented young creative - check out his Soundcloud.

Enjoyed this episode? Help us reach more people by leaving us a 5*!! review
 
You can find us on X
Andy - @desire2undrstnd/Bluesky
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI

A talented young creative iingledew produced our intro/outro – check out his Soundcloud.