Best thing about the best PDs? Meeting expert teachers with a driving, fiery, passion for children’s learning and engagement. Meet Charles Lovitt.

Charles Lovitt, a many years experienced teacher is obsessed with best practice in maths and what works. When Charles talks about what works he’s talking about happy, healthy, cheerful and productive. Charles is the mastermind and driving-force behind Maths300.

An unfortunately drab name for a rich resource. Maths300’s goal is to travel the country and find the best of the best of maths lessons, experiences and investigations; document them and share them. Many of them “old favourites” that have been taken to stratospherically awesome levels of problem solving and investigation. Little bit scared of that? If you want to really support your children’s maths learning, be prepared to get your maths feet wet.

So far my children and I have enjoyed Dice Footy, Multo and Chocolate Cake. As a signed-on Maths300 school we have access to all lesson plans, notes and investigation notes as well as some very effective software. These are two examples from Radioactivity, which is available to non-members to trial.

Go on the free sample tour here

What resonated? That every word, movement, task, comment, question and breath we use is meaningful as teachers. Charles’ asks: Are you effective? Are you raising student achievement and engagement? No? Why not? And what are you going to do about it?