Teacher CPD · Primary Schools

Teaching Primary Maths

This CPD equips primary teachers to deliver the 2023 Primary Mathematics Curriculum confidently through the online learning platform. It develops expertise in the five mathematical practices, CPA progression, interactive modes, and structured maths-talk that makes reasoning visible. Teachers learn to run dual-surface lessons, manage copybook moments, pivot mid-lesson, differentiate through low-threshold high-ceiling tasks, and use formative assessment to inform planning, ensuring consistent, high-quality maths teaching across the school.
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€79
Enrolment per teacher
What's included
  • Self paced
  • Online course
  • Step-by-step lessons
  • Certificate from Coding Ireland

Explore the Course

Participants explore what the New Primary Maths Curriculum (2023) asks of teachers, its five strands and five mathematical practices, and meet the Maths-Talk Leader mindset. They orient to the online learning platform and experience a maths lesson from the learner's seat, establishing a baseline of confidence and their first portfolio entries.

Welcome and Confidence Audit
The Primary Mathematics Curriculum (2023)
The Five Practices and the Maths-talk Leader
The Online Learning Platform as Your Partner

Participants learn the Concrete–Pictorial–Abstract progression and how the platform's interactive activities make the pictorial stage live on the interactive whiteboard. They master display, explore, and challenge mode, and practise narrating an interactive and running a class challenge so the whole class reasons together.

The CPA Progression in Primary Maths
The Three Interactive Modes
Narrating an Interactive on the Whiteboard
Running a Class Challenge

Participants build the craft of mathematical talk, the practice that most changes a maths classroom. They learn why talk matters, the core talk moves (wait time, revoicing, justify, compare), build a bank of reasoning prompts, and learn to run the display-only maths-talk wrap that closes most lessons.

Why Maths-talk Matters
Talk Moves: Wait Time, Revoicing, Justify, Compare
Running the Maths-talk Wrap

Participants put the whole lesson together. They walk the anatomy of the 50-minute dual-surface lesson, learn the copybook moment as a whole-class write beat, see how the Activity Book is worked during class time, and learn to pivot mid-lesson using the Configure controls or a hands-on materials task.

Anatomy of a 50-minute Maths Lesson
The Copybook Moment
The Activity Book Worked in Class
Mid-lesson Pivots

Participants bring the course together into sustainable practice. They learn to differentiate within a single low-threshold/high-ceiling task and across the Activity Book tiers, to gather formative evidence from talk and challenge, and to plan by module and strand for whole-school consistency through the School Self-Evaluation process.

Differentiation and Assessment
Differentiation Within One Task
Formative Assessment in Maths
Planning and Whole-school Consistency
Planning by Strand and the Whole-school Approach

Participants explore what the New Primary Maths Curriculum (2023) asks of teachers, its five strands and five mathematical practices, and meet the Maths-Talk Leader mindset. They orient to the online learning platform and experience a maths lesson from the learner's seat, establishing a baseline of confidence and their first portfolio entries.

Welcome and Confidence Audit
The Primary Mathematics Curriculum (2023)
The Five Practices and the Maths-talk Leader
The Online Learning Platform as Your Partner

Participants learn the Concrete–Pictorial–Abstract progression and how the platform's interactive activities make the pictorial stage live on the interactive whiteboard. They master display, explore, and challenge mode, and practise narrating an interactive and running a class challenge so the whole class reasons together.

The CPA Progression in Primary Maths
The Three Interactive Modes
Narrating an Interactive on the Whiteboard
Running a Class Challenge

Participants build the craft of mathematical talk, the practice that most changes a maths classroom. They learn why talk matters, the core talk moves (wait time, revoicing, justify, compare), build a bank of reasoning prompts, and learn to run the display-only maths-talk wrap that closes most lessons.

Why Maths-talk Matters
Talk Moves: Wait Time, Revoicing, Justify, Compare
Running the Maths-talk Wrap

Participants put the whole lesson together. They walk the anatomy of the 50-minute dual-surface lesson, learn the copybook moment as a whole-class write beat, see how the Activity Book is worked during class time, and learn to pivot mid-lesson using the Configure controls or a hands-on materials task.

Anatomy of a 50-minute Maths Lesson
The Copybook Moment
The Activity Book Worked in Class
Mid-lesson Pivots

Participants bring the course together into sustainable practice. They learn to differentiate within a single low-threshold/high-ceiling task and across the Activity Book tiers, to gather formative evidence from talk and challenge, and to plan by module and strand for whole-school consistency through the School Self-Evaluation process.

Differentiation and Assessment
Differentiation Within One Task
Formative Assessment in Maths
Planning and Whole-school Consistency
Planning by Strand and the Whole-school Approach

What You'll Learn

Learning Goals

  1. Evaluate personal confidence and set targeted goals for leading primary mathematics using the online learning platform
  2. Apply the 2023 Primary Mathematics Curriculum strands and progression expectations to plan coherent Stage 3 and 4 sequences
  3. Lead mathematics lessons that move fluently through concrete-pictorial-abstract representations and the three interactive modes
  4. Orchestrate structured maths-talk using wait time, revoicing, justify and compare moves to make pupil reasoning visible
  5. Design and deliver a consistent 50-minute dual-surface lesson rhythm incorporating copybook moments, activity book practice and mid-lesson pivots
  6. Plan a term of mathematics by strand, differentiate within single tasks using low-threshold/high-ceiling approaches, and apply formative assessment from maths-talk and pupil work

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify the five strands of the 2023 Primary Mathematics Curriculum and locate specific learning outcomes for Stage 3 and Stage 4.
  2. Navigate the online platform to locate any lesson, its interactive activity, corresponding Activity Book page, and explain the full lesson flow.
  3. Distinguish display, explore, and challenge modes and map them to modelled, guided, and independent practice within a lesson.
  4. Narrate an interactive in display mode to prompt prediction, facilitate an explore-mode step at the whiteboard, and run a challenge-mode sequence using predict-then-check.
  5. Use talk moves including wait time, revoicing, justify, and compare to lead a maths-talk wrap that consolidates the lesson’s key concept.
  6. Describe the structure and purpose of each segment in a 50-minute dual-surface lesson, including the copybook moment and three-tier Activity Book practice.
  7. Apply low-threshold/high-ceiling differentiation within a single task and use formative evidence from maths-talk, challenge steps, and Activity Book work to inform in-lesson decisions.

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