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Excellent new blog on our site from Peter Lacey kickstarting a new series' Reflections on the Curriculum and Assessment Review' Find it here:

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I think there is a difference between re-membering and memorising.

PM's post-G&D by-election commitment to do more of what he is already doing too much of does not bode well for Labour.

Once all schools are in MATs it takes little to permit profit making. Then the whole system can be sold off. Similar to energy.
It's teeing up the system for privatisation.
I have a good clue who the bidders will be. Said as much 15 years ago.
Gove has re-entered GOVErnment.

Agree. @joboaler.bsky.social in Math-ish refers to "getting a sense of" before "making sense of".

Got to be careful with language.
An inclusion base in a school, when a school itself should be a base for inclusion, could be misinterpreted.

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Thinking of the curriculum and assessment review.....

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There's something special about DIY in maths. After all, we all have to construct our own idiosyncratic maps of understanding.
I remember my group using straws & pipe cleaners to construct a 3D representation of a hyperparallelopiped.
Over 50 years ago!

The expanding universe of mathematical knowledge is the outcome of human endeavour.

A mathematics curriculum should recognise and celebrate this.

Learning to think & work mathematically is a precondition to the acqusition of mathematical skills and knowledge

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Exactly.
Education is an investment not consumer good.
It's funding should reflect that.

Good luck with the webinar.
As a start, please help your audience understand the difference between description and definition!

Imo fuzzy language is often associated with fuzzy concept.

An example of one of many irritants is: find the area of a circle.

I think I might be agreeing with you!

I believe there is a stage of "getting a sense of" a concept which precedes and enables "making sense of" that concept.

The transition is assisted by moving from an informal language of description to the technical language of definition.

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Charades with teachers.
Peg-a-doggy

And us oldies recall Galbraith's argument on the futility of a model of growth driven by stimulating demand and neglecting basic needs.

I think a reason might be in your headline:
....resistance from the schools THEY are trying to turn around......

School 'improvement' can be effected only by those within. However, it can be facilitated by careful external assistance.

But here is a wonderful example of how assessment can enrich learning and teaching..

And on the proposals for mathematics...

Next time!

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I know the area.
Not far from Nantes.
See www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/

Well worth a visit. If you go let me know. My daughter works in the design school next door.

Where in Brittany?

I welcome new thinking on the "resit" roundabout. Without compromising WHAT is assessed, perhaps look anew at HOW. Timed written unseen examination papers do not necessarily reveal all that a student knows and can do.

Learning is a process of creating and recreating schemata.
Thus recreation aka play is fundamental to learning.

But let's not forget NCETM is funded by govt. It's a govt agency
There's an important place for an independent subscription member-funded maths subject association
Controlled by members not govt: putting the interests & needs of learners first
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which, by their nature are unlikely to address the wide spectrum of individual needs

Agreed. Exploring causes of behaviours that inhibit learning and social & emotional development should go beyond & behind categorisation and labelling.
Many labels are associated with generic & expensive off-the-shelf remedial packages

A one-time HMCI said in a presentation that Ofsted not really needed for all schools. If school was oversubscribed it must be good.