Conference
Recording ONLY - Dyscalculia Conference 2025 - Drawn to Numbers: Empowering Children to Understand Maths
Our Dyscalculia Virtual Conference 2025 is available as a recording if you missed the conference!
Time
Tuesday 3rd March 2026
12:00am
Location
Online
United Kingdom
The conference focused on using visual materials in the classroom to support maths learning, with an emphasis on practical tools already available and encouraging children to create their own visuals and drawings to support their understanding.
This year’s Dyscalculia conference was designed to be an inspiring and effective event for all classroom based educators. The conference explored how visuals and creative methods can support children to better understand numbers and overcome maths difficulties, including anxiety.
It aims to provide resources, practical strategies and approaches that will help educators feel more confident in empowering learners. The core topics explored included, how to use imagery to show a better understanding of maths concepts, how creative maths teaching can support the development of maths, even in reluctant learners and how to foster a positive view of maths amongst individuals in a classroom setting.
The dyscalculia virtual conference took place on 25 November 2025. To purchase the full recording, you’ll need to order it from this page. The recording will be available to purchase until the 3 March 2026.
Once you have booked you will receive a email with a link to access the recording. To ensure the video is only used by the purchaser, you will be provided with a unique password to access the recording. This will allow you to access the recording up to four times within 30 days of you receiving your password.
The login you are provided with is for the sole use of the purchaser. The recording is copyright British Dyslexia Association 2023.
You will be sent your 3.5 hour CPD Certificate once the viewing of the recording is completed.
Our Fantastic Line-up of Speakers!
Dr Jo Boaler - Professor, Stanford University
A Mindset Mathematics Approach
Recent years have seen an explosion of scientific evidence showing that there is a different way to teach and learn mathematics. When people take a “mindset mathematics” approach in all grades, different pathways open up, leading to higher, and more equitable achievement.
A mindset mathematics approach involves teaching maths as a conceptual subject, highlighting the connections between ideas, giving students mindset messages as they learn, sharing maths as a visual subject.
In this presentation we will look together at different mathematical ideas and consider how they can be learned through a mindset mathematics approach.
Target Audience: Primary and Secondary
Dr. Jo Boaler is a leading voice in mathematics education. She is the Nomellini Olivier Professor of Education at Stanford University, where her research focuses on effective and equitable teaching methods.
Her extensive career includes a PhD that won the UK's national award for educational research, and prior roles as a Marie Curie Professor and a London-based math teacher. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former president of the International Organization for Women and Mathematics Education.
Dr. Boaler is a prolific author, with nineteen books and numerous research articles. She has received several awards for her work, including the National Science Foundation's "Early Career Award" and the NCSM Kay Gilliland Equity Award. She was also named one of the "8 educators changing the face of education" by the BBC.
She co-founded Youcubed, a website providing free math resources for teachers, parents, and students, as well as Struggly.com, an award-winning online learning tool. Her most recent book is Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity and Meaning in Mathematics
Dr Ed Southall - Maths Curriculum Lead, Oak National Academy
Third party resources: risks and rewards
In this session we will be discussing the benefits and risks in using 3rd party resources and visuals for maths, such as those suggested in the White Rose schemes. and suggesting practical ways to adapt them to meet your individual students' needs, with a particular focus on them using concrete manipulatives and drawing pictorial representations to enhance learning.
Target Audience: Primary and Secondary
Ed Southall has worked in maths education for over 20 years in primary, secondary and at university level. He has authored several books on maths pedagogy and most recently works as the maths curriculum lead for Oak National Academy and as a trustee for Axiom maths.
Dr Sally Bamber - Senior Lecturer, University of Chester
Creating Dyslexia and Dyscalculia friendly mathematics classrooms
This presentation will share models of collaborative lesson research in mathematics classrooms that are designed to challenge the deficit view of young people who face challenges in their mathematics education. We will look at design principles that build on the powers that children bring to the classroom, enabling connections to be made between symbols, images, contexts, language and concrete representations of mathematical ideas.
Illustrations from Key Stages 2 and 3 will be used to demonstrate more democratic and accessible ways of knowing and doing mathematics. These illustrations have been designed collaboratively with teachers in schools, whereby the researcher and the teachers share responsibility for the children’s responses to the mathematics taught.
Target Audience: Primary and Secondary
Sally Bamber has been involved in mathematics education for over thirty years as a secondary mathematics teacher in four diverse schools and then mathematics teacher educator at the University of Chester.
She is committed to creating accessible and challenging mathematics classrooms by working collaboratively with mathematics educators in schools. Sally’s collaborative lesson research uses evidence and teachers’ professional knowledge to build on the powers that young people bring to the classroom.
Her belief that teachers have a right to high quality, democratic professional learning guides her research with schools as well as her role as Post-Graduate Research lead in the Chester School of Education.
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Recording will be available to purchase until the 3 March 2026 at midnight