Season 1 - Episode 1 - Dani Quinn - What Are You Thinking? Exploring Reasoning in Maths

Hello everyone you’ve joined me Ben Gordon on the BAGs to Learn podcast. I am, at the time of listening, a maths teacher and Assistant Headteacher at a school in Blackpool.  This season on the podcast we are having “Curriculum Conversations” where I interview specialists and leaders about the things that make our schools tick. In the short episodes there are BAGs to learn on  a single narrow focus to make it easy to assign colleagues to the episodes that may help them develop the most.  This episode, I had BAGs to learn from Dani Quinn around reasoning in maths - something that teachers may find difficult to develop in their students and that leaders may find difficult to develop in their teams.  Dani is the Network Lead for Secondary Maths at Ark, a network of 39 schools in England. She was the Head of Maths at Michaela Community School in Wembley, and Dixons Trinity Academy in Bradford, before joining Ark. I have learnt loads from Dani in my time as a teacher, both from her blog, hearing her talk and she is always available on the phone if I ever want any advice. I hope you enjoy it and any feedback would be most welcome. If you rate the episode on your chosen podcast platform, as well as sharing on social media to try to get as many different people hearing the words of wisdom from my guests, it would be much appreciated! Here we go… we’ve got BAGs to learn from Dani Quinn...