1981: “Mathematics anxiety is a serious problem that is not amenable to easy solutions. Because of the avoidance strategies that develop… students learn little mathematics; what they do learn they memorize without understanding, and they forget that little bit as soon as they can.

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Now I am no longer preparing students for GCSEs in Year 10/11, working in the French system, I find it so liberating writing assessments. No need to use past paper questions and I can develop interesting tasks which will really allow me to assess the student mathematically. Like this one.

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If the answer is that kids need some direct instruction in the course of the school day, that's already happening. Let's figure out where to expand or shrink it accordingly. If the answer is that kids need direct instruction all day every day, we've completely lost the plot. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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I'm not in the classroom atm but I've mainly taught in 6FCs. I've seen a lot of students coming in who expect learning Maths to be all about being taught a method and shown examples of it, and then doing some themselves. Problem solving and conceptual understanding seem to be new ideas to them.

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Wow! I woke up this morning to see that two schools had put in orders for my book with a new *enactive* vision of classroom interaction: Teaching Meaning. I'm absolutely buzzing and extremely thankful.

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