A free and engaging one-day professional development conference designed for teachers either offering or thinking about offering Core Maths. The day will focus on approaches for planning, teaching and learning Core Maths.

Core Maths Specification Networks are designed to provide you with the opportunity to discuss and share your experiences and develop your practice around the teaching of Core Maths with teachers who are following the same specification as you.

Students taking Level 3 Core Maths have access to pre-release material one to two months before their exam so that they can become familiar with some of the contexts that they will encounter.

It can often be a challenge to work out how to get the most out of the material, and it is particularly overwhelming in your first few years of teaching the course. Our pre-release discussion meetings are an opportunity to discuss and share ideas and will support you in helping your students best prepare for their exams.

Support for schools and colleges that plan to offer a Core Maths course in the future. The webinar will provide:

• a comparison of the content of the different L3 Core Maths qualifications
• ideas on how to promote the course to your students
• possible approaches to timetabling
• information on where to find resources

A course is aimed at those who will be teaching Core Maths for the first time in the near future. The course will be interactive, discursive and cover the following:

• Planning and resourcing
• Selection and delivery of activities
• Preparing for assessment
• recruitment and maintaining a strong cohort

Explore the challenges of leadership in a maths department and tap into the experience of both tutors and participants. Examples of active learning in A level Mathematics, A level Further Mathematics and Core Maths will be modelled by the tutors, and participants will be encouraged to share their approaches in a workshop discussion.

The best heads of departments inspire through passionate teaching. They also genuinely care about developing the team they lead and are able to maintain a wider perspective on students’ educational experiences as a whole. This sustained professional development course is suitable for any new or aspiring head of mathematics who wishes to reflect upon this demanding role and learn strategies to increase their own effectiveness.

An opportunity to improve or refresh your subject knowledge of the main topics which are common to all or most Core Maths specifications.

Developing Core Maths Pedagogy Work Groups are for experienced and developing teachers of Core Maths who are in at least their second year of teaching Core Maths. The Work Group focuses on collaborative discussion, planning, and trialling ideas between sessions and evaluation.

These Work Groups give teachers opportunities, through collaboration and experimentation, to develop improved teaching approaches that support the open-ended problem-solving skills Core Maths students need to develop and to share these with departmental colleagues. Participant departments will support the role of Core Maths in promoting contextualised problem-solving and links to teaching in other subject areas.

The purpose of this programme is to support teachers who are new to teaching Core Maths in developing specialist knowledge for teaching Core Maths and to increase their confidence in teaching the course.