Numeracy and Maths
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Literacy and Numeracy Professional Learning Directory
Maths Week Scotland 2025
ES Maths Webinar Series
Dyscalculia National Professional Learning Webinar Series (padlet.com)
Aims of the Webinar Series
- Share historical dyscalculia research
- Introduce the Scottish Working Dyscalculia Definition
- Discuss the characteristics of dyscalculia and the impact on learning
- Highlight assessment and identification approaches
- Illustrate teaching strategies and approaches
National Counting Series – Supporting Early Maths Development 2022/2023
Aims of the Webinar Series
- To highlight the importance of counting.
- To provide practical ideas to ensure progression, development and understanding.
- To encourage self-reflection leading to improvement
Supporting Learners with Maths Difficulties Webinar Series 2023/2024
Aims of the Webinar Series
- Webinar 1 – To provide signposting to resources and activities that will support learners who are experiencing difficulties with numeracy & mathematics, including those with dyscalculia, in developing a sound understanding of addition and subtraction
- Webinar 2 – Deep Dive using a 2 row rekenrek.
- Webinar 3 – How to develop conceptual understanding before developing procedural or written algorithms for multiplication and division
- Webinar 4 To share interesting practice, To highlight the importance of mathematical language and connections, To give meaning to algorithms, To illustrate visual approaches, To highlight the benefits of playing games and signpost some examples with a focus on Multiplication and Division
Maths Difficulties (Fractions) Webinar Series
Aims of the Webinar Series
- To unpick the part-whole concept of fractions
- To explore in depth the concept of fractions as numbers in their own right and as an operator
- To exemplify counting in fractions
- To explore multiplication by a fraction to scale up and down quantities and measurements
- To exemplify methods for comparing fractions
- To help “join up” the teaching of fractions, decimal fractions and percentages
- To show how an understanding of fractions and place value lead to decimal fractions
- To explore helpful contexts that develop understanding
- To highlight a variety of concrete and visual approaches
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