How I Wish I'd Taught Maths: Lessons learned from research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes - Softcover

Craig Barton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911382497 ISBN 13: 9781911382492

Publisher: John Catt Educational Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

'I genuinely believe I have never taught mathematics better, and my students have never learned more. I just wish I had known all of this twelve years ago...'

When you speak to the likes of Dylan Wiliam, Doug Lemov, Daisy Christodoulou, Kris Boulton and the Bjorks, you are bound to learn a thing or two. But when he started his Mr Barton Maths Podcast, Craig Barton wasn’t expecting to have his whole outlook on teaching and learning turned upside down. How I Wish I’d Taught Maths is the story of an experienced and successful maths teacher’s journey into the world of research, and what it looks like in the classroom.

Along the way we meet practical, easy-to-implement strategies including Supercharged Worked Examples, Silent Teacher, SSDD problems, low-stakes quizzes, diagnostic questions, Purposeful Practice, self-explanations, harnessing the power of the hypercorrection effect, how to (and how not to) teach problem-solving and much more. No matter your experience, teaching style or favourite number, every maths teacher will find something to think about in this book.

Chapters

1. How students think and learn
2. Motivation
3. Explicit Instruction
4. Focussing Thinking
5. Self-Explanations
6. Making the most of Worked Examples
7. Choice of Examples and Practice questions
8. Deliberate Practice
9. Problem Solving and Independence
10. Purposeful Practice
11. Formative Assessment and Diagnostic Questions
12. Long-term Memory and Desirable Difficulties

About this title

About the Author

Craig Barton has been teaching maths since 2004, predominantly in two comprehensive schools in the sunny North West of England – Range High School in Formby and Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton. Four years into his career, Craig was appointed an Advanced Skills Teacher (AST), giving him the opportunity to work with and learn from many teachers and students in a wide variety of schools. Since 2009, he has been the Secondary Mathematics adviser for the Times Educational Supplement (TES), the largest professional network of teachers in the world, reviewing, creating and sharing resources with hundreds of thousands of teachers. Craig is the creator of two of the country’s most popular maths websites: mrbartonmaths.com, which provides free resources to teachers and students all around the world; and diagnosticquestions.com, a formative assessment website hosting the world’s largest collection of high-quality maths diagnostic multiple-choice questions, which aims to help students and teachers identify, understand and resolve key misconceptions. Craig is the host of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, interviewing leading figures from the world of education, such as Dylan Wiliam, Doug Lemov, Daisy Christodoulou and Dan Meyer. Craig has been fortunate enough to give talks, run workshops and work with teachers and students all over the world, from Bangkok to Basingstoke, and is the author of three (non-maths) novels. Fingers crossed he is also still married to Kate when you are reading this.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Catt Educational Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911382497
• ISBN 13: 9781911382492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 502