What you can learn in this unit

  • Some effective ways to build on your students’ intuitive understanding by using real-life objects and examples.
  • How to support your students to learn through discussion in paired and groupwork.
  • How to develop rich tasks by making small changes to the focus while keeping the structure of existing rich tasks.

This unit links to the teaching requirements of the NCF (2005) and NCFTE (2009) outlined in Resource 1 and will help you to meet those requirements.

What this unit is about

1 Issues with learning about area and perimeter