Helping Every Child Feel Like a Mathematician - with Tom Oakley
In this episode of The Primary Maths Podcast, Jon Cripwell speaks with Tom Oakley about one of the most important — and often overlooked — aspects of mathematics education: belonging.Why do some pupil...
17 Mar 58min
AfterMaths: When Children Decide They’re “Not a Maths Person”
Episode 60 of The Primary Maths Podcast is an Aftermaths episode where Jon Cripwell and Becky Brown reflect on mathematical thinking in the classroom, the hidden cost of passive maths, and why pupils’...
13 Mar 37min
Direct Instruction Without Losing Thinking: A Conversation With Will Mcloughlin
In this international episode of The Primary Maths Podcast, Jon is joined by Will McLoughlin, a maths teacher based in Abu Dhabi, founder of AddvanceMaths.com and current Education Doctorate student r...
10 Mar 51min
AfterMaths: Bean 13, Algebra, And a Little Maths Magic
In this Aftermaths episode of The Primary Maths Podcast, Jon Cripwell and Becky Brown reflect on the week’s conversation about using storybooks in mathematics and share a range of classroom ideas spar...
6 Mar 31min
Why Stories Might Be The Missing Piece In Maths Lessons - with Hannah Allison
What happens when maths lessons start with a story rather than a method?In this episode of The Primary Maths Podcast, Jon Cripwell is joined by Hannah Allison from Maths Outside the Box to explore the...
3 Mar 38min
AfterMaths: Manipulatives Can't Think (But Teachers Can!)
Episode 56 of The Primary Maths Podcast focuses on manipulatives in primary maths and asks a simple but important question: do manipulatives automatically lead to mathematical thinking? Jon and Becky ...
27 Feb 40min
When Maths Thinking is Messy but Meaningful - with Dr Kate Quane
In this episode of The Primary Maths Podcast, Jon Cripwell is joined by Dr Kate Quade for a thoughtful conversation about language, learning and mathematical thinking.Language sits at the heart of mat...
24 Feb 51min
AfterMaths: The Million Dollar Maths Problem
In this half-term Aftermaths episode, Jon and Becky take a deep dive into prime numbers and discover that they are far more than a Year 5 objective about “numbers with exactly two factors”.The convers...
20 Feb 33min
