1. Senior Education Consultant, Whizz Education
The Future of Maths
Fiona Goddard
Senior Education Consultant, Whizz Education

2. Please use your phone/ipad/tablet and go to:

3. Just before we get started…
Sum to 15
How to play:
Take it in turns to remove cards or manipulatives from the pile.
First person that has any three numbers that sum to 15 wins.
Challenge:
Can you find a winning strategy?

4. Technology is everywhere!

5. The history of manipulatives

6. Technology is reshaping the ways we teach and learn
Greatest impact on learning
Diamond 9: Activity
Write on post-its three technologies that you use in the classroom.
Decide on your table which is the most important technology to enhance learning, and place this at the top of the diamond, with the least important at the bottom.
Least impact on learning

7. Which technologies do you currently use? What impact are they having?
iPad apps
Multimedia
Social media
Visualiser
Interactive whiteboards
Virtual manipulatives
Audience response systems
Virtual reality
3-D printing
Coding in the classroom
Wearable technology - such as smart watches
Podcasts, blogs, and class websites
Gamification
Virtual Tutor – personalised learning

8. In order for students to access this activity, they need to be able to…
In pairs
Pair share with another pair
Share with the table
Share with another table
Share with the group/ class
Snowballing
Numbers facts / bonds
Mental calculations
Number sense
Collaboration skills
Curiosity
Develop strategy
Sum to 15
How to play:
Take it in turns to remove cards/ or manipulatives from the pile.
First person that has any three numbers that sum to 15 wins.
Challenge:
Can you find a winning strategy?

9. Typical class 4

10. Worldwide reach

11. Every student is unique…

12. Student A
Maths Age: 6.58

13. The Virtual Tutor Assess Adapt Support Reinforce Teaching Page
Interactive Exercise
Test
Help and support is given when needed to complete the exercise
Assessment determines if they
are ready to progress

14. Student A after a couple of years

15. Bringing mathematics to life

16. A hidden connection

17. Is there a winning strategy?
The winning strategy
Is there a winning strategy?
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18. The winning strategy

19. What’s ‘magic’ about a Magic Square?
Original
Rotation 1 4 2 3
Reflection through vertical
Reflection through horizontal

20. Making the links – taking the learning deeper
How do we work out the magic number?
Does the centre number have any significance?

21. Other ideas from our website

22. Maths-Whizz – Teachers’ Resource

23. Technology of the future?

24. Any questions? Fiona Goddard Jean-Francois Lucas
Jean-Francois Lucas

25. Thank you