Understanding Secondary Maths Concepts

In this course, students will be asked to reflect on their beliefs around mathematics and think about what makes a great maths teacher. Students will also consider their current maths skills as well as the language and communication approaches that are known to work best.

This course has a four-week teaching period requiring a total of approximately 40 hours of learning. All course learning materials are available on demand.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

• Review and consolidate specialist knowledge of areas of mathematics
• Present and communicate teaching a maths concept effectively
• Communicate including using ICT to represent mathematical ideas

• Beliefs about teaching maths
• Communication and language in mathematics
• Review of number and algebra strands
• Review of measurement and geometry strands
• Review of statistics and probability strands

To be eligible for a digital badge for this course, you will need to successfully complete an assessment which includes:

• Choose out of mathematical concepts provided. Record yourself explaining two concepts.
• Journal of reflections as you developed how to explain it – things you struggled with yourself – metacognitive aspect.
• This optional assessment is due at the beginning of week 7