Key Ideas in Mentoring Mathematics Teachers

The course covers four pedagogically-powerful inter-connected themes: These themes focus on promoting ‘big ideas’ in learning and teaching mathematics such as generalisation and abstraction, reasoning and proof, precision in mathematical language, conceptual structures within mathematics, and appreciating the potential for mathematics teaching and learning of digital technologies. Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is suitable for those who have been teaching mathematics at secondary school level for at least three years. This background is needed as mentors draw upon their observations and wealth of knowledge as experienced teachers to suggest effective and workable approaches for maths lessons. This background is necessary for mentors to draw upon their observations and knowledge as experienced teachers. You can use the hashtag #mentoringmaths to talk about this course on social media.

• Fostering Algebraic Reasoning,
• Fostering Geometric Reasoning,
• Fostering Numerical Reasoning,
• Fostering Functional Reasoning.