ATM Conference 2012 • Session E5
Ian Benson
Ian is leading a session on Gattegno’s Cui curriculum for primary algebra.
Here are some things you might like to read and watch before the conference and before attending Ian’s sessions.
Session E5 • Experience with the Cui Curriculum
Gattegno maintained that we can exhaustively identify the awarenesses needed in any domain and redefine teaching as the activity which leads students to cover this ground for themselves without missing any essential steps and without wasting time. To this end he developed the Cui curriculum and popularised it in his Mathematics textbooks. This session is based on seven years experience of re-introducing Cui to English primary schools. We will follow sample lessons in which students and teachers work algebraically before studying number, and explore the mechanisms for sustained student performance improvement.
Look at Ian’s own website for some background to this
Read Ian’s paper: ‘On Gattegno’s psychological dynamic for making mathematics’





