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Tackling Misconceptions in Primary Mathematics: supporting staff to identify, plan for and address common conceptions

Summary

Misconceptions in mathematics are a natural consequence of a child's mathematical development and a child's errors can arise for a variety of reasons. These may be due to the pace of the work, the slip of a pen, slight lapse in attention, lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding. Some of these errors might be predicted prior to a session and tackled at a planning stage to diffuse or unpick possible misconceptions. In order to do this, the teacher needs to have the knowledge of what the misconception might be, why these errors may have occurred and how to unravel the difficulties for the child to continue learning.

These two half day sessions will explore practical approaches that teachers can use to translate this evidence into classroom-based methods for addressing pupil misconceptions head on.

Session dates:

Session 1: Tuesday 19th May 2026, 9am-12pm

Session 2: Wednesday 17th June 2026, 9am-12pm

Recommended for

Up to 2 places per school (in the first instance)

Venue

SDSA Training Room, Alliance House, 6 Bishop Street, LE1 6AF

Cost

Free for Leicester City maintained schools. £130 for delegates from non-maintained city schools and all Leicestershire schools.

Further Information

For further information and opportunities, please visit the PDL website

Any questions, please contact peter.sloan@sdsa.net

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Release the named staff to attend all events within the programme.
Give staff the necessary support to undertake school-based activities, gap tasks and improvement work.
Engage well with the opportunities in the programme and, if invited, school-based support.
Give at least 48 hour’s notice if you are no longer able to attend a session you have booked. Failure to notify or cancellation within a 48 hour window of the training date will result in a 100% charge of the course fee. If you are a maintained Leicester City primary school, and accessing the course free of charge, the cancellation cost will be the charge advertised for non-maintained/Leicestershire schools. For non-maintained/Leicestershire schools the advertised charge will apply.

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