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Teaching visually with Bernie Westacott
How can visuals and manipulatives be used to enhance the teaching of maths?
Course overview
Expert of all things visual, Bernie Westacott, guides me through a wonderful array of tools and techniques to help bring potentially abstract and difficult concepts to life. We talk in depth about the struggles students have with negative numbers, and how counters can be used to address many of these issues. But it is Bernie's approach to simultaneous equations that really blows my mind!
Contents
Teaching visually: the course
The full teaching visually course with Bernie Westacott
Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - Maths speed dating
Part 3 - Bernie's career
Part 4 - Bernie's favourite failure
Part 5 - Visual teaching introduction
Part 6 - Beginning of number
Part 7 - Negative numbers
Part 8 - Simultaneous equations
Part 9 - Reflections
Part 10 - Big 3 and close
Sketchnote summary by @mrshawthorne7
Bernie's YouTube channel
A link to Bernie's full collection of teaching visually videos
Bernie Westacott's YouTube channel
Other examples of teaching visually
Examples from other teachers I have learned loads from in this area
NCETM CPD course on Representation and Structure
NCETM: Using mathematical representations at Key Stage 3
Jonathan Hall - teaching factors, multiples and primes with tiles
Roisin McArdle - Fractions: Multiple representations
The Importance of Bar Modelling - CPD resources
Bar modelling by Tom Manners
Algebra tiles - Part 1 by Tom Manners
Algebra tiles - Part 2 by Tom Manners
Book: Visible Maths by Pete Mattock
A collection of the best visual manipulatives
My online courses
A brief look at my other online courses
My online courses
Link: my online courses
About Craig Barton
Craig Barton has been involved in teaching maths for 15 years. He was the the TES Maths Adviser for 10 years and is now the Head of Education at Eedi. Craig is the author of the best-selling books “How I wish I’d taught maths” and "Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain", the host of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, the creator of mrbartonmaths.com, diagnosticquestions.com, variationtheory.com, ssddproblems.com and mathsvenns.com, and Visiting Fellow at the Mathematics Education Centre at the University of Loughborough.