Programme for the day 0930-1000 Refreshments on arrival 1000-1100 Richard Dunne

1. KS3) TANTS MENT DAY Date: Tuesday 09 September 03 The Loop Centre, Exeter Registration/Coffee from 09:30 Conference: 10:00 – 15:30 Cost: £4 5 :00 (to include lunch) (PRIMARY & FOR NS MATHS CONSUL INTENSIFYING AND RE - ENERGISING THE N A TIONAL STRATEGIES IN MATHEMATICS? A one - day conference for NNS and Key Stage 3 Maths PROFESSIONAL DEVELOP Consultants across the South West WHAT DO YOU THINK HIGH QUALITY MATHS TEACHING LOOKS LIKE? · Is the model of effective teaching promoted in the National Strategies still adequate or is it now in need of development and updating according to your experiences and evidence? · T his is an opportun ity to come together as a “leading edge” group of some of the best classroom practitioners in the South West to consider two contrasting views of … *** EFFECTIVE MATHS TEACHING *** * Richard Dunne of Exeter University will propose high quality mathematics teaching as assisting performance. * John Mason of the OU suggests effective learning arises from exploiting learners’ powers to think. · After these presentations you will then get a chance, in smaller groups, to balance these approaches and reach some sort of group concensus. A combined practitioners’ view will then be fed back to the two speake rs for their summary sessions. Programme for the day 0930-1000 Refreshments on arrival 1000-1100 Richard Dunne 1100-1130 Refreshments 1130-1230 John Mason 1230-1330 Lunch 1330-1430 Follow-up in groups 1430-1530 Feeding back concensus positions and speakers’ summaries 1530 Refreshments and departure South West Advisers c/o Torbay LEA Oldway Mansion Paignton, TQ3 2TE Phone: 01803 559395 Fax: 01803 208212 Email: jean.tomkow@torbay.gov.uk

3. KS3) TANTS MENT DAY Date: Tuesday 09 September 03 The Loop Centre, Exeter Richard Dunne: FOR NS MATHS CONSUL (PRIMARY & Richard Dunne taught in schools for twenty PROFESSIONAL DEVELOP years, including as Head of Maths Faculty in a large comprehensive sc hool, and as Deputy Headteacher in a Middle School. Throughout this time, his major interest was in the detail of effective le arning and teaching, introducing important ideas in curriculum organisation and development. He continued this interest when he moved into higher education and taught at the University of Exeter before working independently as an author and consultant. He is well known nationally and internationally for his innovative approach to maths teaching and has published extensively in both maths and mentoring. He works across the age range (from Nursery to University) and makes invited contributions to con ferences on ‘thinking skills’, the ‘gifted and talented’ and on ‘special needs’ (in each case South West Advisers c/o Torbay LEA offering a critique of current dog ma). As a Oldway Mansion career - long advocate of the necessity of whole - Paignton, TQ3 2TE class teaching, he welcomes the current renewed Phone: 01803 559395 interest, but voices concern about its practice. Fax: 01803 208212 Email: jean.tomkow@torbay.gov.uk

4. KS3) TANTS MENT DAY Date: Tuesday 09 September 03 The Loop Centre, Exeter John Mason: FOR NS MATHS CONSUL (PRIMARY & John Mason has been teaching mathematics ever since he was asked to tutor a fellow student when he was fifteen. In college h e was at first unofficial tutor, then later an official tutor for mathematics students in the years behind him, while tutoring school students as well. After a BSc at Trinity College, Toronto in Mathematics, and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOP an MSc at Massey College, Toronto, he wen t to Madison Wisconsin where he encountered Polya’s film ‘Let Us Teach Guessing’, and completed a PhD in Combinatorial Geometry. The film released a style of teaching he had experienced at high school from his mathematics teacher Geoff Steel, and his tea ching changed overnight. His first appointment was at the Open University, which involved among other things the design and imp lementation of the first mathematics summer school (5,000 students over 11 weeks on three sites in parallel). He called upon h is experience of being taught, to institute active - problem - solving sessions, which later became investigations. He also develo ped project - work for students in their second year of pure mathematics. In 1984 he wrote Thinking Mathematically with Leone Bu rton and Kaye Stacey, which has turned into a classic (translated into four languages) and is still in use in many countries aro und the world with advanced high school students, with graduates becoming school teachers, and with undergraduates in courses in which students are invited to think about the nature of doing and learning mathematics. Learning and Doing Mathematics was or iginally written for Open University students, then modified for students entering university generally. At the Open University he led the Centre for Mathematics Education in various capacities R - for fifteen years, which produced the influential Routes - to oots of Algebra, and numerous - collections of materials for teachers at every level. His principal focus is thinking about mathematical problems, and supporting others who wish to foster and sustain their own thinking and the thinking of others. Oth er interests include the study of how authors have expressed to students their awareness of generality, especially in textbooks on the boundary between arithmetic and algebra, and ways of working on and with mental imagery in teaching mathematics. The bo ok Practitioner Research Using The Discipline of Noticing is one manifestation of a lifelong collection of tactics and framework s for informing the teaching of mathematics. Along the way he has articulated a way of working developed at the centre which p rovides methods and an epistemologically well founded basis for practitioners to develop their own practice, and to turn that in to research. Recent publications of interest: 01 Mason, J. 2001, Mathematics Teaching Practice Handbook, Ellis Horwood, South West Advisers Chichester. c/o Torbay LEA 01 Mason, J. 2001, Practitioner Research Using The Discipline of Noticing, Routledge - Oldway Mansion Falmer, London. Paignton, TQ3 2TE 98 Mason, J. 19 98, Learning & Doing Mathematics (Second revised edition), QED Books, York. Phone: 01803 559395 Fax: 01803 208212 98 Watson, A. & Mason, J. 1998, Questions and Prompt s for Mathematical Thinking, Email: jean.tomkow@torbay.gov.uk