Otley author launches fun-inspired maths book | Ilkley Gazette

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AN EDUCATION consultant from Otley has rounded off a successful 2018 with a book launch, inform Jim Jack, Reporter at Ilkley Gazette.

Education consultant and author Tony Cotton at the launch of his new book in Otley.
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Tony Cotton has written full-time since leaving his post as Head of the School of Education and Childhood at Leeds Beckett University six years ago. Over the past 12 months he has six books published - ranging from a mathematics programme for Jamaica to a textbook on teaching in International Primary Schools for Cambridge University Press.

His latest publication, How to develop confident mathematicians in the early years: A guide for practitioners and parents (published by Routledge), was launched at Otley Labour Rooms on December 14...

His book includes 60 activities developed from those games which he describes as ‘ways to play together and to explore and develop mathematical understandings collaboratively.’ 
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Source: Ilkley Gazette