This session will review the different forms of manipulatives, and how they can be used in your learning environment to develop a deeper understanding of the underlying pattern of mathematics.

The webinar links manipulatives to helping enhance understanding in terms of Number Sense, Visualisation, Communication, Metacognition, Generalisation, and Making Connections.  

Presented as part of the #MathAdventure thought leadership series hosted by Oxford University Press (OUP). To access the webinar you will need to register you details with OUP. You will receive a complimentary PD certificate of participation if you view more than 85% of the webinar. 

This math adventure series includes other great webinars, such as Developing a Growth Mindset, Transforming your Teaching, and the future of Maths Learning, presented by experts, Prof. Sugata Mitra, Dr. Jennifer Chang-Wathall, and Prof. Anne Watson, Dr. Helen Williams, and myself. 

Some Manipulatives Shown
Formal Manipulatives
Informal Manipulatives
Environmental Manipulatives
Digital Manipulatives

Note: There will be no public Webinar dates organised for Academic Year 2022-2023. Below are 6 of my popular webinar options. If you would like me to deliver any of these sessions (or any other Webinar) direct to you or your faculty, contact me, to discuss your needs further and for a quote. 

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Base Theory and Pedagogy

Date: Custom Organised

Time: 1 to 1.5hrs

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Add / Sub Conceptual Development

Date: Custom Organised

Time: 1 to 1.5hrs

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Understanding Multiplicative Properties

Date: Custom Organised

Time: 1 to 1.5hrs

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Fractions, Conceptions, and Development

Date: Custom Organised

Time: 1 to 1.5hrs

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Enhancing Formative Assessment

Date: Custom Organised

Time: 1 to 1.5hrs

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Tier 2 Numeracy Interventions

Date: Custom Organised

Time: 1 to 1.5hrs

Flexible Dates

Time 1hr to 1.5hrs

The session will review and compare the latest neuroscience research with findings of an action-based research project teaching on the ground in an International School. The results demonstrate how best teaching practice in elementary school mathematics could look. Both theory and practice align to advocate a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach to teaching and learning mathematics focusing on conceptual understanding. This is an interactive, and practical webinar that will explore these ideas with pattern-based concrete materials such as Pattern Blocks and Numicon. This linking of theory and practice is sure to create more competent and confident learners in your school equipped with a solid conceptual foundation that can be used beyond mathematics.

Price options:
€35(P/P Min 10 people)
or from
€300 (peR hour)
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Resources showcased: Webinar 1
Pattern Blocks
Numicon
Multilink Cubes
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PRICE OPTIONS: €35(P/P MIN 10 PEOPLE) OR FROM €300 (PER HOUR

FLEXIBLE DATES

TIME 1HR TO 1.5HRS
This session will look at the essential part-whole visual pattern that links virtually all of elementary mathematics together. It will then use this part-whole pattern to suggest a progression of conceptual learning for the addition and subtraction domain in the elementary school. While achieving this goal, this webinar will provide several practice opportunities to solve problems with methods that link these underlying properties and concepts to the skills expected by most mathematical curriculums around the world. This interactive webinar will showcase these ideas using 10 frames, Cuisenaire Rods, and Numicon manipulatives.
Resources showcased: Webinar 2
Numicon
10 Frames
Cuisenaire Rods
FLEXIBLE DATES

TIME 1HR TO 1.5HRS

This session will examine the core properties and various number patterns of Multiplication. Using these properties and patterns, the webinar will suggest a systematic structure to learn multiplicative facts that avoids rote-learning. Tried and tested at many elementary schools, this is a structure that creates a learning journey to automotive recall through learning deeper conceptual patterns, which the student can rely on to build successfully to a specific fact. Such understanding and structure create longer term competence and confidence in solving unknown ideas in math and other subjects. This session will provide practical and interactive examples to participants showcasing visual models such as arrays and bar modelling materials such as the Cuisenaire rods. Working with a CPA approach, the webinar should allow participants to develop lesson ideas they can use immediately in their classroom setting. 

PRICE OPTIONS:
€35(P/P MIN 10 PEOPLE)
OR from
€300 (PER HOUR)

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Resources showcased: Webinar 3
Array Modelling
Cuisenaire Rods
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Resources showcased: Webinar 2
Pattern Blocks
Fraction Bars
FLEXIBLE DATES

TIME 1HR TO 1.5HRS

This session will use a conceptual framework to uncover the part-whole patterns inherent to fractions. It will showcase concrete and visual modelling to explore the operations of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. For example, this session will demonstrate what a quotient really means, and with concrete materials explain why division of a fraction by a fraction ends with a larger number. It will explore why some of the formulas such as cross multiply really work. This webinar gets to the heart of why students (and teachers) can find fractions hard, and shows how we can make it more accessible in the classroom to develop deeper understanding

PRICE OPTIONS:
€35(P/P MIN 10 PEOPLE)
OR from
€300 (PER HOUR)

FLEXIBLE DATES

TIME 1HR TO 1.5HRS

This session will review the four essential types of assessment used by teachers to evaluate ongoing student understanding, inform practice, and help aide future lesson planning. It will show how formative assessment need not be formal. Indeed, certain materials if used with intent can form concrete based challenges that are not only fun for the students to do, but diagnostically create a deeper understanding of a student’s overall conceptual understanding in a targeted domain, and help inform future practice. This interactive webinar will model selected activities and scenarios, and would be beneficial for both the learning support teacher & core classroom teacher.

PRICE OPTIONS:
€35(P/P MIN 10 PEOPLE)
OR From
€300 (PER HOUR)

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Resources showcased: Webinar 5
Numicon
Multilink Cubes
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FLEXIBLE DATES

TIME 1HR TO 1.5HRS

Math interventions come in many different shapes and forms. However, despite a likelihood to find firm advocates and success stories for every tyoe of intervention, there are also many longitudinal research papers that illustrate that interventions (generally) only have marginal positive impacts and may not be worth the effort. So, what makes an intervention succeed or fail? How can one build, select, or modify an intervention program for a suit specific students, curriculum and school?  How can we ensure staffing and investments create maximum positive impact? This webinar will provide the participant with a few top tips about what makes a successful math intervention, and give some essential ideas in order to help the participant with their next steps in planning and conducting a successful math intervention. This webinar will be useful for all assistants, teachers, and administrators involved with the implementation and conducting of a learning support intervention program. 

PRICE OPTIONS:
€35(P/P MIN 10 PEOPLE)
Or from
€300 (PER HOUR)

recent webinars or workshops

  • Making numbers real in your PYP Classroom
  • Harnessing a multi-sensory approach to learning mathematics for all grades
  • A Numeracy Intervention Program that really works for Gr3-7 linked to the PYP
  • The Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract (CPA) learning structure
  • Assessment – Informing our teaching
  • The New Zealand GLoSS and JAM Diagnostic Interviews
  • Linking the brain and mathematics
  • Numicon (Getting the most out of your manipulatives)
  • Linking CPA teaching and learning to inquiry and exploration
  • Vertical conceptual curriculum planning for the Elementary School
  • Mathematics – The Science of Patterns (A brief Introduction)

recent domain based targeted training

  • Fractions for the Upper Elementary
  • Introduction to Early-Part Whole thinking
  • Addition and Subtraction for Lower Elementary
  • Play based math learning for Kindergarten
  • Learning times-tables using number patterns
  • Numeracy Based Intervention Programming (Innumerate to Counting Confidently)
  • Numeracy Based Intervention Programming (From Counting to Part-Whole Thinking)