Making the most of our new secondary mastery materials

In this first episode of the new school year, we interview three of the people behind the recently published Secondary Mastery Professional Development Materials. They explain how the materials can help departments and teachers develop their maths pedagogy to teach for deep and connected understanding. They offer teachers suggestions for how the materials might be used, where they might start and how they are structured.

If you would like to look at the specific section discussed in detail on the podcast, ‘Understanding multiplicative relationships’, you can find that here.

Show notes

Carol Knights, Director for Secondary, NCETM

Pete Griffin, Assistant Director (Secondary), NCETM

Steve Lomax, Maths Hub Lead, GLOW Maths Hub

Gwen Tresidder, Communications Manager, NCETM

Episode chapters

01:01 – What we mean by ‘teaching for mastery’

04:01 – How and why the materials were created

06:06 – Balance between too much and too little material in a lesson

07:08 – How they are intended to be used by teachers

10:27 – Classroom ideas contained in the materials

13:58 – How the materials are structured

17:11 – How teachers in a school might work with the materials

23:25 – The multiplicative reasoning theme in detail

27:10 – Why trigonometry is part of multiplicative reasoning

30:40 – Common misconceptions

31:15 – Representations: PDF documents and videos

34:10 – How they can be used by a teacher on his/her own

36:30 – How the materials are linked to research