Clare Christie

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@PeterFoulds77 @NumSenseMaths So pleased to hear that. Thanks for letting us know. Also thanks for the very helpful thoughts via @MrOxfordMaths on possible things to strengthen in the programme. They've already promted a flurry of thinking and work which we hope to launch ready for Jan.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

Calling all primary teachers: by next Wed, submit your ideas to the exciting Maths Horizons rapid review of maths, feeding into the Francis Review. This is a group of people who will do some great thinking and can really influence maths for the better. Please contribute!

[Lisa Pollard @LisaPollard_SW]

What aspects of the current maths curriculum & assessment in England would you like to keep? What would you change, add, or remove? Reply by midday on Wednesday 16th October. Find out more, see examples in the @mathshorizons blog & share your thoughts: https://t.co/z3XhSLJ8OR

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@maddocks_toby Thank you for coming along! Really hope you and your class enjoy the successes and just get in touch again with any other qus

[Katie Maki @kathrinmaki]

So glad this paper is finally online! We found no differences in math anxiety across overt and covert timing conditions but students reported higher math anxiety on complex problems compared to simple problems.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

There is so much which has improved beyond recognisition in primary maths teaching over the last decade, but we are fighting a bloated curriculum and further progress needs a real slimming down of content.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

And the mark needed in maths to reach the expected standard has dropped below 50% for first time this year. Hardly mastery of the full curriculum even for those who have reached the heady standard of 49%.

[Schools Week @SchoolsWeek]

Update: Education minister @CMcKinnellMP says 'despite the brilliance of our teachers, these figures show there are far too many pupils who are not meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, and almost total stagnation in progress nationally'

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@TheMathsBazaar Poor Mrs Mills - 940 seeds to plant! Think the least of her worries is what fraction of the last tray is filled...! Thanks for the prompt to look at the reasoning papers :)

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

Am well aware how much KS2 SATs draw on knowledge of mult and div facts, but still quite stark seeing this year's arith calcs which use them set out together

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

Would love to see the relationship between KS2 maths SATs scores and MTC scores if KS1 attainment is controlled for. Think current Y3 and 4 will be only cohorts who have all three data points?

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

Interestingly none use 11 or 12 times table facts. Wish they would just get those out of curric and MTC. Feels like a waste of teaching time which could be redirected to getting all children fluent in single digit facts.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@dmthomas90 @SmartJacques OK great - yes that is the context I have taken/imagined it in - I listened to your oracy conversation with Geoff Barton last week so am sure it is most probably from that. I'll credit you at least as where I first heard it. It's a great phrase in the context of maths

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

Recently heard the phrase ‘protective factors’ used in relation to children continuing to enjoy and achieve in maths. It’s stuck in my head as v useful and want to attribute it correctly. Was it from either of your work on KS3 @SmartJacques @dmthomas90?

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@SmartJacques @dmthomas90 We use it regularly in school in safeguarding (as I am sure you know!) to discuss what buffers families and children may have in place to be able to absorb/mitigate risk factors, and was thinking in the same way. Feels really useful to me as an idea in maths.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@MathsHubNW1 @imogenlf @NW1Lead @NCETM @JayneCarBF @GaynorBahan @LisaFathersBF @BrightFuturesET @LaurusTrust @SycamoreCETrust Ah! Thank you so much for sharing. It was a real privilege to be involved. So glad it hit the mark and felt like time well spent for those you were there - well done all of you for getting such a great turn out from NW1 heads.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@VickiBrown86 Ah! I’d totally forgotten the story until talking about the oak lessons yesterday- so glad I remembered and recorded it. Yep agree the PD materials are so fab. Use them every time we plan at school - and weep over the gaps in them like geometry!!!

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

On a VERY stormy day about 10 years ago I was incredibly lucky to spend a career changing day with Anne Watson.

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

@J9Allen Oh my goodness, well remembered… I *think* those were with tumblers which were ok for photos, but this lovely big one is perfect for front of class demos. Treat yourself Janine!

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

So a big thank you to Anne, her ‘stuff’ and her chauffeur. It gives me great satisfaction, 10 years on, to see the fruits of that day being written deep into national maths resources. Give them a go! @edsouthall

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

And here is my fractions vase – one of my most prized teaching tools. It’s surprisingly hard to find a transparent straight sided vase, so buy one if you see one. You won’t regret it!