​This webinar is for any education professional interested in the effect that maths difficulties may have on exam performance. It will be especially useful for teachers working in the area of special needs.

In this webinar, Rebecca Thompson discusses the impact of maths difficulties in different areas of the curriculum by looking at some of the underlying reasons why students struggle in maths: challenges with working memory, maths anxiety, executive functioning, mathematical language, spatial skills and magnitude skills, and therefore, why this crosses over into other curriculum areas.

The session lasts for about 45 minutes, followed by Q&A with Rebecca.

Please note: We also ran this webinar as a seminar session at our Venue and Virtual Conferences in September 2024. If you attended the seminar at either of these, the content will be the same.

The course tutor is Rebecca Thompson.

Rebecca Thompson

Rebecca is a Specialist Teacher with more than 19 years’ assessment experience. She has a current Assessment Practising Certificate, regularly carrying out diagnostic assessment for dyslexia and dyscalculia, as well as carrying out access arrangement assessments. She is a senior assessor and IQA for the PAPAA course, supporting students with the course demands. She is a member of the APC accreditation team for the BDA and is a SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) approved CPD provider, offering a SASC approved mentoring course for diagnostic report writing and a Feifer Assessment of Maths course.

Please select a start date below. You will have ten consecutive days from this start date during which to watch the recording.

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​No, this webinar is not registered with SASC. All those that attend the webinar will be sent a certificate of attendance a day or two after the session.