In 'Making Every Maths Lesson Count: 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.
Emma McCrea is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton, specialising in the design and delivery of evidence-informed teacher training for both trainee and experienced teachers. She has led professional development training for organisations such as the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) and the Maths Hubs. She is currently studying for a Fellowship in Education and is the founding director of an edtech start-up. Having started her career as a maths teacher at an innovative secondary school in East Sussex, Emma has since worked as a head of maths, qualified as an advanced skills teacher and led on teaching and learning and teacher professional development.
In Making Every Maths Lesson Count Emma has expertly drawn together all the approaches and strategies a teacher can use to make their pupils better mathematicians. From old favourites like the use of mini whiteboards to more recent techniques such as silent modelling , each approach is brilliantly exemplified and illustrated.
Simply put, every teacher of maths, whether they are just starting out or have been teaching for 30 years, will find something of value in Making Every Maths Lesson Count . It is the book of a lifetime for anyone involved in teaching mathematics.
- Peter Mattock, Director of Mathematics, Brockington College, and author of Visible Maths
Making Every Maths Lesson Count is one of the best maths teaching books I ve read. Emma takes you on a journey through the principles that underpin the Making Every lesson Count series and expertly adapts these for use in the maths classroom. In an engaging and highly accessible way, she manages to draw on research and expertise from across all aspects of education which results in an exceptional balance of practical ideas and theory.
- Mel Muldowney, maths teacher (previous joint winner of the TES Schools Awards Maths Team of the Year award) and blogger at JustMaths
Emma McCrea s Making Every Maths Lesson Count is essential reading for all teachers of mathematics, whether experienced or new. It manages that rare gift of being broad yet succinct, and is a reference piece that you ll find yourself coming back to again and again. While providing a solid overview of the state of play in the teaching of mathematics, it is also a jumping-off point to explore the people and ideas that are shaping its future.
- Kristopher Boulton, Director of Education, Up Learn
Each generation of maths teachers must rearticulate, in their own vernacular, the essential components of effective maths teaching as they see them. In Making Every Maths Lesson Count , an accomplished practitioner draws on current research, on her own experience in the classroom, and on the writings of fellow practitioners to provide sage advice and 52 pedagogical strategies rooted in both theory and practice. The important thing is that readers experiment for themselves, and reflect on their experience as they prepare to develop their practice in the future.
- John Mason, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Education, Open University, and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford
Accessible, succinct and easily digestible, Making Every Maths Lesson Count neatly summarises the key ideas in maths teaching. It is thoroughly evidence-based and is packed full of suggested tasks and activities. I love the prompts encouraging readers to reflect on their practice and think about how they can try out new approaches in the classroom.
Essential reading for trainee maths teachers, and it will be of great benefit to experienced teachers too.
- Jo Morgan, maths teacher and
