Product reviews for Conceptual Maths

Overall, I look forward to sharing the book with colleagues who work in teacher professional development.

The most joyful and thought-provoking aspects of the book are illustrations of visual representations suggested to help assimilate new conceptual understanding. 

The book made me reflect on my own practice and students who are likely to use prepotent strategies when faced with a calculation following a procedure without visualising the underlying mathematical structure they have created. The book invites us to reframe ‘solving questions’ as ‘manipulating mathematical structure’ and share that with our pupils – “Look how you changed the structure of that mathematical object!”