In this workshop we'll look at some fun maths from a Victorian textbook that goes slightly beyond our modern curriculum. This will expand your subject knowledge and give you ideas for how to challenge your highest achieving students. The main focus of this workshop will be surds and algebra.

We all know that feedback is a crucial part of learning. We also know that individualised, personal feedback is very time consuming. Whole class feedback can help, but sometimes there are simply issues with individuals that don't appear in the wider class. Here is where front-loading feedback can help. In this session we will explore what front-loading feedback looks like, and have a chance to design some tasks with front-loaded feedback in mind.

Do your students sometimes struggle to complete multistep processes? Do they start questions and forget how to finish them? Teaching backwards to secure success might be the answer you’re looking for! Teaching backwards is the big brother to backwards fading. It is an approach I have been using in several different schools with great success. This approach works really well for students in KS2 to KS5 and beyond! Come and explore how this methodology can secure success for your students and think about where you can use this in your teaching.

This session promises you the opportunity to do plenty of Maths and to deeply consider the models that we use to teach certain topics in our curricula.
Suitable for KS1 teachers up to KS4, come along to discover just how powerful these two questions are! (And yes, this description is mysterious, but if anything more is written, the big surprises of the session will be given away).

This times tables workshop moves beyond rote memorisation to mastery, helping children build deep understanding by connecting related multiplication facts. Using the Times Tables Stick, we’ll explore a structured, strategy-based approach that fosters fluency, confidence, and mathematical reasoning. You’ll leave with practical techniques to support all learners in developing mastery and mathematical oracy.

There are only 14 different calendars - each one begins with one of seven different days of the week, and each one can optionally be a Leap Year. Using Modular Arithmetic and the Doomsday Algorithm of John Conway, this session will familiarise you with the way our calendar works. We will find out about the change from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar, the riots over the extraordinary calendar for September 1752, the reason the Tax Year begins on 6th April, and a method for naming the correct day of the week for any given date, past, present or future.

Finding the right course for learners is often tricky, even trickier for pupils who are often disengaged, demotivated and battling resits. The session will explore an alternative course for KS4 pupils to enable a positive and successful experience within maths which runs alongside GCSE. The qualification in particular will support learners with identified skills gaps in Maths and can be used to support progression. Come and see what we have learnt from delivering the course at both Level 1 and 2 along with the changes in pupils' perception to maths following their success, and how we make this work within our curriculum.