Liz Gibbs

National and International Maths Consultant

Workshop Information:

Mental mathematics is as important to mathematics as phonics is to literacy. 

The recent pandemic has had a detrimental effect on children’s mental calculation skills and many current mastery schemes of work favour column methods.  

At this workshop you will experience first hand, mental maths activities using common resources.  

All the activities can be easily adapted for children across the primary age range and used in the classroom the very next day.

Session Outcomes:

Liz will also share the outcomes from her research.  

She will also share key documents and all the activities used in the workshop via a QR code linked to a Padlet. 

Learn about the benefits and impact that teaching mental maths and a daily 10 minute maths meeting has on teaching and learning.

Biography:

Liz is an experienced teacher and has taught all year groups from nursery to Year 8.  In addition to her teaching experience, she has ten years of local authority school improvement work as a maths adviser and has worked as a regional director for the National Whiteboard Network at the DfE.

Since leaving local authority work in 2011, Liz has developed her school improvement work nationally and internationally, has become a published author/editor and has written page content and educational scripts for BBC bitesize.   She has also written educational maths scripts for two independent film companies based in the UK.

Through her consultancy work, she supports senior leaders and teachers at individual schools and runs courses for maths teachers.  Liz is at her happiest teaching and running maths workshops for children across the UK and internationally.

Keeping up to date is important to her and alongside membership of the ATM/MA primary working group, Liz is also an accredited PD Lead for the NCETM with her local Maths Hub (Angles).  Involvement with the NCETM hub includes regular training and delivering local professional development for teachers and early career teachers.  Over the past four years, Liz has been involved with running Research and Innovation Working Groups across the primary and early secondary phase.