S1 E1 - Teaching tricks

Hello and welcome to Digging for the why - the podcast for maths teachers of years 5-8 looking at continuity and why we need to dig for the why in our lessons.

In this episode, Alison and Andy discuss the following:

• What do we mean by digging for the why? 
• Why we shouldn't teach tricks 
• A student led vs teacher led classroom

Links to things mentioned in this episode:

• NCETM continuity workgroups
• NCETM checkpoint resources

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You can find us on twitter:
Andy - @desire2undrstnd
Alison - @AlisonHopperMEI

Our intro/outro was produced by a talented young creative - check out his Soundcloud.

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A talented young creative iingledew produced our intro/outro – check out his Soundcloud.