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Making Every Maths Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Maths Teaching
In 'Making Every Maths Lesson Six principles to support great maths teaching' , experienced math teacher and lecturer Emma McCrea takes away the guesswork as she sums up the key components of effective math teaching. Math classrooms are incredibly complex places. At any given time, the factors influencing the effectiveness of your teaching are boundless and this can lead to relying on intuition as to what might work best. This book aims to signpost a route through this complexity. Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning 'Making Every Lesson Count' , Emma McCrea helps teachers to move beyond trial and error by sharing evidence-informed tips and suggestions on how they can nudge the impact of their teaching in the right direction. 'Making Every Math Lesson Count' is underpinned by six pedagogical principles challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning and presents 52 high-impact strategies designed to streamline teacher workload and ramp up the level of challenge in the math classroom. The book draws out the key findings from the latest research on memory, learning and motivation and each chapter features numerous worked examples to demonstrate the theory in action, together with a concluding series of questions that will help math practitioners relate the content to their own classroom practice. Furthermore, Emma s writing offers clarity around the language of math teaching and learning, and also delves into the finer points of how to identify and address any misconceptions that students may hold. Written for new and experienced practitioners alike, this gimmick-free guide provides sensible solutions to perennial problems and inspires a rich, challenging and evidence-based approach to the teaching of math. Suitable for math teachers of students aged 11 18 years, and for primary school math specialists.
192 pages, Paperback
Published July 16, 2019
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July 6, 2023
A fantastic book for maths teachers! I’m glad I read this now at the beginning of my career as it points to so many common teaching pitfalls that hinder learning. It helped me reflect on my own practice and provided lots of useful strategies to implement in the classroom. I also had great fun discovering new online resources - I’ve actually already started using more of the variation theory problems and it was so good to see learners look at a problem from different angles.
October 24, 2020
Great short book! I found it useful as a newly qualified teacher. I enjoyed this more than Making Every Lesson Count which I found too broad and not as applicable to Maths. This was fairly similar to Craig Barton’s How I Wish I Taught Maths. Nonetheless, my book is full of sticky tabs of strategies that I will be implementing in my classroom!
July 6, 2019
Fantastic. Well researched and full of sensible manageable ideas to improve your classroom teaching and all in only 150 pages. Has already impacted my practice. This is a book you will benefit from regardless of how long you’ve been teaching. Highly recommended!
August 30, 2020
It's a short read that does exactly what it says it does: give you concrete strategies to improve your math teaching. It's essentially a "Lite" version of Craig Barton's "How I Wish I'd Taught Maths" which I rated 5 stars and gave a pretty impassioned review. I thought McCrea's book was organized better with it centered around Challenge, Explanation and Modelling, Practice, Questioning, and Feedback, but lacked Craig's personality and charm. I'm a fan of these books that are based on cognitive load theory and this book should be upheld as one of the most "to the point" resources for it.
Two stars doesn't mean it's bad or inferior. I wish I had read this book in my undergrad or grad school years instead of literally every other math ed book I read. It's far better. But at this point, it didn't enrich my thinking on the topic too much.
Two stars doesn't mean it's bad or inferior. I wish I had read this book in my undergrad or grad school years instead of literally every other math ed book I read. It's far better. But at this point, it didn't enrich my thinking on the topic too much.
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