How to Enhance Your Mathematics Subject Knowledge, Number and Algebra for Secondary Teachers

You've got to make sure that you are focusing your, let me go back a second, every question you ask will direct a pupils attention at something. That's fine to be bitty that bit, and then when they come to do this new concept of expanding brackets, that's when you can be a bit more coherent in your explanation. You don't have to assess their understanding of that, so they can focus on the whole narrative if that makes sense. And then once you've explained it really clearly, you can use as much questioning and as much mini whiteboards as you want to see whether or not they can replicate the process. Brilliant. Jenna, they were five fantastic tips.