Meeting Type
Prime Maths Introduction with Svend from Scholastic
Points to Note

• You should have around 4 groups in your class, with around 6-8 children per group.
• Concrete examples and materials used first with the course book. Then pictorial concepts are shown to the students. Then abstract - numbers and equations in the practise book part. 
• Learning progressions - what we are teaching and in what order. 
• Same language used in all the books as they progress through year levels at school and the Prime books. 
• Prime is designed so children will apply their number knowledge to strand - learn a concept and then apply it in a strand context.

How will it help me?
I'm feeling like I have a bit more clarity with this extra explanation. It still feels like I will learn best by just doing, and talking with other colleagues as we go.

So What?

Time to start applying my new understanding when I teach Prime daily in the classroom. This means keeping my two groups per day, and slowing it down and really going back to using lots of equipment and having students to use the equipment to show me their understanding. I need to set up some better maths tumble activities for seniors so that the children are still engaged in maths when not with me.