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What teachers said about the aims and purposes of their teaching later in the project
Achievement: they would like students to:
- Think mathematically about questions on topics they have not covered
- Know much more than syllabus for tests
- Answer difficult questions better
- Do maths mentally, and also to communicate clearly in writing
- Know useful things like tables, place value, measure
- Give mathematically detailed answers
- Make the effort to learn as much as they can
Ways of working: they would like students to:
- Respond to challenge
- Take the first steps themselves in higher-order tasks
- Ask more questions
- Learn from mistakes
- Hypothesise more
- Follow through ideas, not to give up
- Build on maths skills and knowledge
- Be resourceful
- Use mathematical expression and language
- Learning with and from others
- Explain answers
Social norms: they would like students to:
- Attend
- Behave well
- Organise themselves
- Care about their work
- include others
- Care about each others' work
- Listen and participate
Affective aspects: they would like students to:
- Be confident, resilient and resourceful
- Want to be in maths lessons
- Take risks
- 'Enjoy what I enjoy'
- Be resilient
- Try hard
- Understand their own starting places
