‘Make Thinking Visible’

This quote from Ritchhart and Perkins’ 2008 work underpins everything we at FluidMaths believe in have been striving to achieve. To design problems that visibly illuminate students’ thinking.

Our vision is to create a platform to support your students at KS4 and KS5 to improve on the ability to tackle A02 and A03 problems.

 We have been working to make this a reality since the summer of 2019. All the team at FluidMaths have worked are working as classroom teacher with decades of combined experience at teaching GCSE and A-level here in the UK and abroad.

We owe a wealth of thanks and appreciation to so many colleagues along the way who have given feedback and advice on how to make this work.

Of mention is Steve Blades for sowing the seed. Steve’s philosophy of teaching mathematics, his experience and achievements are up there with the greats. We also owe a invaluably owe Mark Dawes and the Cambridge Maths Hub for their inspiration and guidance. Martin Noon for all the guidance on improving the questioning style and the positive feedback that kept us going. Sam Hartburn for always being available to help and to guide through out this period.

We hope www.fluidmaths.co.uk will provide the resources that will enable you to stretch and challenge your more able students, support their critical thinking skills and improve their cognitive fluidity. We believe that you and your students will find all the resources on FluidMaths do indeed help make thinking visible.

 

The team at FluidMaths