The purpose of this project is to support primary teaching assistants (TAs) in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, enabling them to understand, teach and support pupils in the maths classroom.  These programmes are designed for primary teaching assistants who are supporting maths, and who would like to develop their specialist knowledge for teaching maths. This may be particularly relevant for new TAs or TAs that have not received maths-specific training.

This year the focus will be on the following mathematical areas:

• What is effective in the learning and teaching of mathematics?

• Number sense (part 1)

• Number sense (part 2)

• Additive reasoning

• Multiplicative reasoning

• Fractions

These networks are free to all teaching assistants and schools involved.