10 - Kieran Mackle thinking deeply about the science of maths

In this episode of the Knowledge for Teachers Podcast, Brendan Lee speaks to Kieran Mackle. Kieran is a primary mathematics specialist teacher from the UK, an author and is currently working with Complete Maths. He is also the host of Thinking Deeply about Primary Education, a podcast that should be on your playlist, and this episode is actually the second part of our conversation. In the first part, Kieran quizzes me for his podcast. However, in this episode you will get an in-depth look at how deeply Kieran has thought about primary mathematics. We look at a number of topics including:

• Concrete, context, pictorial, abstract, language
• Threshold concepts
• Depth and Challenge
• Storytelling
• Word problems

In this episode, Kieran also analyses the lesson structure that I recently proposed.

Resources mentioned:

• Christopher Such
• Neil Almond
• www.thinkingdeeply.info/threshold-concepts
• Jonathan Hall - mathsbot.com
• Gareth Metcalfe - https://garethmetcalfe.wordpress.com/
• Dan Willingham
• Nick Hart

Part 1 of the conversation: Episode 120 Thinking Deeply about Primary Education - In search of the Science of Mathematics (Teaching) with Brendan Lee

• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thinking-deeply-about-primary-education/id1546748470?i=1000609050064
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6De7GSKd2DlEoTxUFI4w0m?si=1RmPR-P3S6aYE54CsV1aDQ&fbclid=IwAR0yZzIAvzTgDrP3aN8_myL-3ZLBDi6KpAmJBYEfrGii2ObTkr1ABqplfhY&nd=1

My original blog post on A Systematic and Structured Approach to Teaching Primary Mathematics:

https://www.learnwithlee.net/a-systematic-and-structured-approach-to-teaching-primary-mathematics-part-1/

You can connect with Kieran:

Twitter: @Kieran_M_Ed

Website: thinkingdeeply.info

You can connect with Brendan:

Twitter: @learnwithmrlee

Facebook: @learningwithmrlee

Website: learnwithlee.net