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Developing Mental Strategies Through Hands-on Maths Activities
Want to inspire active participation in maths? Learn high-quality hands-on maths tasks that improve understanding and make your students love maths!
Course Description
Fleuncy with mathematical calculations is essential for all students K–6. Students need plenty of opportunties to develop speed and accuracy with mental strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
In this high-energy workshop, Anita will model a range of hands-on maths tasks designed to improved students’ fluency with mental computation. For each task, Anita will explain the focus content of the task and the prior learning students need, as well as provide practical tips for how to implement the task in the classroom. Teachers will leave with a range of high-quality exciting tasks they can use the very next day!
Related Elements of Anita Chin’s Primary Mathematics Framework
The content of this course focuses on layer 1 of Anita’s Framework. More information about the Framework can be found here.
Delivery Model
This course is delivered as an after-school customised workshop at your school for your whole staff. It is suitable for early career teachers, experienced teachers, learning support educators, maths leaders and school leaders.
You can choose either a 2-hour or 3-hour course.
2 hour PD course
Cost: $2000 + travel expenses
Course Code: SMSH2010
Standards: 2.5.2
NESA Accredited: no
3 hour PD course
Cost: $3000 + travel expenses
Course Code: SMSH3010
Standards: 2.5.2
NESA Accredited: no