Breed success by sharing skills with your maths colleagues

By Amanda Clegg and Karen Collins2023-05-17T07:19:00

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How working with the maths department will help your students transfer knowledge

How can science and maths teachers collaborate to help secondary school chemistry students transfer their understanding between these subjects? Learners often struggle to take information from one subject and use it in the other. This article shares ideas and strategies for teachers of maths and science to work together to improve students’ knowledge transfer and, ultimately, their learning outcomes.

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