Tania McFee began her Natural Maths journey last year with some Ann Baker PD. She began working with the 4/5 class last year and now has the 6/7 students. Tania has not only engaged herself but has supported staff and other students. Each week the 2/3 class visit with their teacher to work on Natural Maths. I was fortunate today to be a part of this and have many pics, audio clips and more to share. There were many highlights including seeing interpersonal skills in action, a range of maths strategies in action with all the language that goes with it (equal, split, chunk, rainbow fact, friendly numbers, open number line). The room was full of engaged learners, the thinking was made visible on boards , books and with metalanguage. The reflection at the end was like icing on a cake !

The students are using the star model to support their learning.

The reflection was rigorous and again highlighted differentiation. 3 students were asked to share how they got the answer.The class were asked if they used a similar strategy but different pathway, if they would change their strategy and again dialogue was promoted for learning. I took 20 minutes of audio during the reflection and will create a word cloud  to add to this post, so you can see the use of and evidence of language and learning for the students and their teacher.

Here's what 
What I learned
by the end of reception the minimum expectations of children are :

·      to count on 
·      subitise 
·      count back
·      double

and
by the end of year one:
·      all of the above 
·      turn around
·      friendly numbers
       rainbow facts 

So What
My interpretation of this learning
We need to focus on learning this secret code inside out and back to front!!!!!

It is our responsibility to get the balls in motion!!!!!!  

All children should have automaticity of all number facts by the end of year 2.    

Now what?
My action plan to build on this new learning
Immediate action plan-

·      include a mental routine and reflection into all maths lessons

·      spend the rest of the term learning the secret code

·      make a maths wall