Category Archives: Professional Development

Scottish Mathematical Council Primary Journal

Posted on April 29, 2022 by highlandnumeracyblog

The latest issue of the Scottish Mathematical Primary Journal is out! You can access this issue (as well as previous issues) here. If you are a secondary teacher (or just want to access additional articles) then previous issues of the … Continue reading →

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SMC Conference – Registration is open!

Posted on February 11, 2022 by highlandnumeracyblog

Registration is now open for this year’s SMC Conference where you will find a wide range of workshops for those who are in primary, secondary or tertiary education as well as student teachers. For the second year running the event … Continue reading →

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CPD: Recordings from the SMC Online Conference 2021

Posted on March 28, 2021 by highlandnumeracyblog

If you missed us at the recent Scottish Mathematical Council Online Conference or our sessions clashed with other sessions you were attending but you still wanted to access the materials, we have now put links to the three sessions we … Continue reading →

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CPD Recording: Understanding Number: Part 1 (Early Level)

Posted on March 19, 2021 by highlandnumeracyblog

Happy Friday everyone! If you didn’t manage to catch the live session of Understanding Number: Part 1 which was exploring number at Early Level then fear not, we’ve now added the recording to our CPD page. You can access it … Continue reading →

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Evaluation of Live and Recorded CPD – Please help!

Posted on March 18, 2021 by highlandnumeracyblog

Education Scotland are evaluating the benefits and impact of the delivery of the STEM Grants Programme. Highland were fortunate to receive funding as part of this and one element of how this was used was to put together the live … Continue reading →

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SMC Virtual Conference – 6th March 2021

Posted on February 12, 2021 by highlandnumeracyblog

The Scottish Mathematical Council will be hosting its annual conference online for the first time ever! The conference offers a fun filled informative day of mathematics for teachers in all sectors including but not limited to: Early Years, Primary and … Continue reading →

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Northern Alliance Online Primary Maths Conference

Posted on November 17, 2020 by highlandnumeracyblog

The Northern Alliance Online Primary Maths Conference will take place on: Saturday 28th November from 9:00 – 13:15 with the event being hosted on Microsoft Teams in Glow. It’s set to be a great event with four sessions being delivered … Continue reading →

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Northern Alliance Online National 5 Mathematics Conference – this weekend!

Posted on November 10, 2020 by highlandnumeracyblog

Just a reminder that the Northern Alliance National 5 Mathematics Conference is being hosted online this Saturday (14th November). There’s a great line up of presenters including Andy Thompson, Lee Gray, Chris McGrane and Jo Morgan. The session will run … Continue reading →

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There’s more to subitising than meets the eye!

Posted on September 4, 2020 by highlandnumeracyblog

Continuing with our ongoing theme of sharing the guidance documents that we are producing to support the new Highland Numeracy Progression Summary Documents, today will look in more detail at the document on subitising. We frequently see the perception that … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Properties – What underpins children’s informal strategies?

Posted on August 28, 2020 by highlandnumeracyblog

This post, which follows on from the last two, forms a series of posts that aims to highlight some of the guidance documents that we’ve included in the new HNP Summary Documents for each year.  If you haven’t read the … Continue reading →

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