Developing Multiplicative Fluency Through Strategic Thinking
Maths Games with Andrew Lorimer Derham
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3h 0m
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The usernames and passwords we used in today's webinar will still be available for a few weeks but after this people can either use a free seat (216 hour long slots available each day).
Or for guaranteed access teachers can purchase a 12-months access for $20 or sign up their school for as little as $3 per user.
The aim of this session is to provide teachers with a carefully selected range of practical activities — primarily focused on multiplication — that can be used to develop genuine mathematical fluency. These tasks are designed not only to build accuracy and efficiency, but also to support students in applying and connecting key mathematical ideas across contexts.
Participants will experience elements of the learning themselves. For example, teachers may be challenged to work with the 17 times tables. This is not intended as a test of recall, but as a deliberate opportunity to demonstrate how fluency can develop rapidly when effective strategies are used. By moving beyond rote memorisation, teachers will be encouraged to rely on number relationships, partitioning, and known facts to construct new understanding.
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