Planning, teaching, learning and assessment are ideally informed by the nature of mathematics in which explicit emphasis is on connections between ideas, flexible thinking, application of mathematics to practical contexts, and ways that problem solving and reasoning connect to understanding and fluency. This session will illustrate the characteristics of such teaching and will contrast this with approaches that reduce mathematics to routines and rules to be learned by rote.

Key takeaways:
1. Examples of tasks and lessons that foster mathematical thinking.
2. Insight into how this approach can enhance student engagement, agency and equity.