Start Strong in Number with this positive, playful, and practical professional learning opportunity.

Designed for Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers this self-paced teacher content and toolkit explores strategies and resources for meeting all learners where they are and begin the rewarding journey of helping them extend their mathematical knowledge and skills.

Do all this in ways that foster student confidence by uncovering how maths concepts and skills can be learned and enjoyed for their own sake.

Normally $80, but currently using a Pay What You Can model until 28 May 2025

The Workshop & Toolkit:

Access a series of videos and resources on-demand and make use this comprehensive teacher toolkit to help students start strong in number.

Video modules include snippets from an online session which ran on Wed 22 Jan 2025 as well as short video examples of teaching and learning in the classroom.

Topics cover:

Which number concepts and skills are most important to focus on from the start through strategic, repeated exposures and practice
Formative assessment strategies to learn what students already know and can do in number
Playful class routines that integrate explicit teaching, collaborative learning and differentiation to foster key number sense ideas and skills
Culture-building activities to shape an environment supporting not just numeracy and mathematical development, but as independent and cooperative learners

AITSL standards covered:

1.2, 1.5, 2.1, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 6.4, 7.4. Professional learning certificates can be issued on request.

Further discounts for those in need:

Hopefully your school can support and fund enrolment as part of your professional development journey. If you not in this position, and are experiencing financial hardship, please contact alex@mathsplay.com and ask about partial and full scholarships.

About the facilitator:

“Alex is a very engaging presenter whose love of teaching and working with students is present in the way she shares her work”. - Selena Cutting, Principal

"Alex Box is a highly regarded teacher, coach and education consultant, working across a broad base of contexts including classrooms, conferences, community workshops and individual/small group maths coaching.With an excellent grasp of the current curriculum as well as strongly grounded in pedagogy and the increasingly complex needs of the individual student (with a strong interest in neurodiversity) Alex teaches with respect, curiosity and a desire to share the joy of learning maths in community and in a diversity of ways". - Jane Stewart, Teacher and Parent

Start Strong in Number — junior primary toolkit

Choose your tickets

Individual access only — pay what you can (normally $80) ticket

School License: 5-9 Teachers (normally $350) ticket

School License: 10+ Teachers (normally $480) ticket