Full Day Course

This course is designed for all teachers of Numicon. Learn more about the pedagogy and the research behind why the Numicon Approach is so successful at raising student achievement. Grow your teacher knowledge and understanding of mathematics through learning more about how to use the manipulatives to support students to understand Maths. Dig deep into Te Mataiaho and Numicon. Look at ways to plan, teach, and assess effectively using Numicon. Navigate OUP Numicon online and follow a scope and sequence. Experience the development of key mathematical knowledge and ideas through step-by-step, explicit teaching. Learn when and how to adapt your teaching to enable and extend the needs of all your learners. Understand when and how to use the additional resources - Explore More, Explorer Progress and the Collaborative Problem Solving Books. Bring a set of Numicon shapes, a base board, cuisenaire rods and some pegs. Come for an interactive hands-on day of learning. Morning tea will be supplied, BYO Lunch!

Big Ideas is a 12-week Intervention Programme. Big Ideas - focuses on the key mathematical ideas from the second part of Phase 2 and early Phase 3. Big Ideas - is based on research on how to best support learners with identified gaps in their foundational maths knowledge! Big Ideas - covers Place Value, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, decimals and Percentages in one term! It is also suitable for students with learning difficulties We welcome Catherine Huxford from Maths Associates in Auckland to Christchurch on the 3rd September. The full - day PD will include: * Unpacking the Big Ideas Intervention Programme * Learning how to use the assessment tools within the programme with your learners - to identify specific 'gaps' in learning. * Identify the starting point - selecting from the 48 step-by-step explicit lessons provided for you in the five key areas: This course will be practical, contain some theory and a is your chance to learn how to successfully implement, explore and unpack this incredible self contained, highly successful intervention programme.