Fractions | Year 5

National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 5

Statistics | Year 3

National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 3

Measurement | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 6

Linking fractions, decimals and percentages

Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.10

Number | KS3

National Curriculum resources for Number – Key Stage 3

Perimeter

Unit 3 – 2 weeks

Fractions and percentages

Unit 7 – 6 weeks

Parallel and perpendicular sides in polygons

Unit 10 – 2 weeks

Geometry and Measures | Key Stage 3

National Curriculum resources for Geometry and Measures – Key Stage 3

Fractions | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 6

Area, perimeter, position and direction

Unit 6 – 2 weeks

6.2 Perimeter, area and volume

Core concept 6.2 covers how the formulae for perimeter, area and volume are derived and connected, and the importance of reasoning mathematically to solve a range of problems.

Multiplication and Division | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 6

Mixed-age whole-class teaching

In this approach, all pupils in the class are taught together, following a carefully-sequenced two-year rolling programme

Addition and Subtraction | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 6

Using the DfE’s KS3 maths guidance in secondary teaching

Four steps to help you plan and teach percentage change

Professional development opportunities for leaders of maths education available now

Teachers who want to achieve or enhance maths leadership accreditations can now apply for two separate professional development programmes

Maths leadership CPD opportunities

Applications now open for two separate professional development programmes

Welcome to the NCETM in 2023/24

Whether you’re a new teacher, or coming back to begin another year, we are here to support you with all your maths CPD this year and beyond

Paid Teaching Internships: three-week internships this summer

Undergraduate and master’s students interested in teaching shortage subjects, including maths, can now apply for fully-funded, paid Teaching Internships taking place this summer.

Shanghai Surprise!

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

A coherent journey through maths

At a small, rural primary school, pupils in mixed-age classes benefit from teaching for mastery approaches

Teaching perimeter and area in Year 7 using NCETM Checkpoints

What do your Year 7s already know and understand? How can you find out? And how can you move their understanding forward in Year 7?

Using the NCETM Professional Development Materials for departmental learning

We visit a school using the materials to structure INSET and department time for professional development

Making the most of maths competitions

Maths competitions can be a great way to broaden students’ mathematical horizon – get the dates in the school diary early!

New diagnostic classroom resources to find out what your Year 7s can do

Addressing two years of disrupted schooling, Checkpoints activities will help you to formatively assess understanding of key topics

Multiplicative contexts: area and perimeter 2

Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.30

Performance measures and early-entry GCSE

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

NCETM Newsletter - October 2019

Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available

NCETM Newsletter - December 2019

Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available

Use our new Checkpoints activities in Year 7!

A secure understanding of Key Stage 2 maths is crucial for new Year 7s to progress at secondary school

NCETM Newsletter - May 2020

Support for maths learning and teaching during school closures, Primary and Secondary Mastery Specialist recruitment, and other opportunities for 2020/21

How to get students taking Core Maths

We visited USP College in Essex to find out their six steps to effective enrolment in Core Maths

Fractions | Year 4

National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 4

Teaching that adds up: how mastery can support financial literacy

Bringing a teaching for mastery lens to Oak’s financial education resources across the primary and secondary phases

TIMSS 2023 results published

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) confirms that England has maintained its high global performance in mathematics

GCSE Maths 9-1: How did it perform in its second summer?

Representatives from England’s three main exam boards share their thoughts

Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 5

National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 5

6.4 Constructions

Core concept 6.4 explores: triangles of given lengths; a perpendicular bisector of a line segment; a perpendicular to a given line through a given point; an angle bisector.

Why we employed a primary teacher for maths in our secondary school

How one school employed a primary teacher to help introduce mastery

Guest blog post by a Secondary School Head of Maths

An article by Hande Kiamil, Head of Maths at Mill Hill County High School, in the London Borough of Barnet

Building consistency and equity in maths provision across a trust

How partnership with its local Maths Hub is improving outcomes for pupils at Sycamore Trust in Greater Manchester

Upper Key Stage 2 - Linking fractions, decimals and percentages video lessons

Video lessons on linking fractions, decimals and percentages for children in Years 5 and 6

Teaching mathematics for mastery at secondary school

Mixed-age mastery – how and why it works

One North Yorkshire primary school has made teaching for mastery work in four classes which span seven year groups

Multiplicative contexts: area and perimeter 1

Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.16

The importance of Core Maths and the support available

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Spotlight on LLMEs - Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialist Programme

Hear from a Mastery Specialist as he shares the impact of this fully-funded programme on post-16 maths teaching at Andover College

How and why one Yorkshire school is teaching Core Maths

A head of maths and Maths Hub Lead talks about the benefits of the qualification

How maths textbooks are making a comeback

Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery

England-China teacher exchange 2016/17: Seeing Shanghai teaching at first hand

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Statistics | Year 2

National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 2

Statistics | Year 4

National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 4

Addition and Subtraction | Year 3

National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 3

3.1 Understanding multiplicative relationships

Core concept 3.1 explores fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion (direct and inverse) as contexts in which multiplicative relationships are used.

Teacher collaboration supports mixed-attainment classes

A London school models one possible way to make the transition

Algebra | Key Stage 3

National Curriculum resources for Algebra – Key Stage 3

Raising the status of professional development

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Professional Development – the key to making teaching ‘a career worth having’

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Adapting maths teaching for the Covid-19 period

Guidance for secondary schools – updated November 2020

Teaching through the pandemic 4 – Nikki Bailey

A deputy head talks about using active learning in maths across Key Stages 1 and 2, and the benefits this has had for children after a long period of home learning

Pattern

Looking for and finding patterns helps children notice and understand mathematical relationships

TSM Spotlight – Matthew Arnold School, Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex

How Intensive support helped one secondary school to improve GCSE Maths results by 20 percentage points

Debbie Morgan receives CBE at Windsor Castle

The NCETM’s Primary Director attends investiture performed by Princess Anne

Meet the team

Find out more about current NCETM team members with their areas of responsibility. If you want to get in touch with someone at the NCETM, email info@ncetm.org.uk with full details of your query and we will direct it to the right person

Ratio and Proportion | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion – Year 6

Measurement | Year 5

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 5

Measurement | Year 4

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 4

Geometry

Theme 6 comprises four core concepts: geometrical properties; perimeter, area and volume; transforming shapes; constructions.

Federations and MATs engaging with Maths Hubs

Two examples of multi-academy trusts (MATs) successfully engaging with Maths Hubs and seeing maths performance rise

Number and Place Value | Year 4

National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 4

Ratio and Proportion and Rates of Change | KS3

National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion and Rates of Change – KS3

Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 3

National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 3

Checkpoints

Diagnostic maths activities to help teachers develop their assessment of students' prior learning for KS3

Measurement | Year 3

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 3

Time

Unit 11 – 1 week

Statistics | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 6

Multiplication and Division | Year 2

National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 2

Ten calculations A level students should do on a calculator

The AMSP's Tom Button looks at which calculations A level students should be doing on a calculator

Draw, compose and decompose shapes

Unit 4 – 2 weeks

How student attainment in maths has weathered the COVID storm: lessons from TIMSS 2023

The NCETM Director and the Director for Evaluation and Impact reflect on the latest international maths comparison tests and how this informs developments in the NCETM and the Maths Hubs Network

What PISA 2025 tells us as we plan for the new secondary maths curriculum

Nicola Trubridge, the NCETM’s Director for Secondary Mathematics, reflects on the latest PISA findings and what they might mean as the maths education community prepares for a new maths national curriculum

Example lessons

Examples of three of the 15 lessons contained within the Teaching Units

What are the benefits of being a Primary Mastery Specialist?

Leanne Casey tells us about her experiences of becoming a Mastery Specialist

Rebalancing the equation: the maths gender gap and why it matters

Charlie Stripp explores the gender gap in maths attainment between boys and girls, and why it matters for girls’ future opportunities, social equity and the nation’s overall potential

PISA results for mathematics – how can they help us?

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Multiplicative reasoning

Theme 3 comprises two core concepts: understanding multiplicative relationships; trigonometry.

‘They’ll give it a go’: how teaching for mastery helped one SEMH school change teacher and student mindsets

A head of maths explains how lesson videos helped her team explore teaching for mastery approaches in a specialist setting

Eugenia Cheng rethinks gender around maths

‘Is there a relationship between maths, gender and learning? How might it be characterised?’ Dr Eugenia Cheng shares her ideas.

Copyright

Copyright information

Mastery in mathematics: What it is and why we should be doing it

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Learning in Lockdown 6 – Craig Tilstone

A Year 6 teacher talks about the difficulty of engagement in remote learning in an area with a low socio-economic profile

Secondary Archive

An archive of all Secondary Round-ups and Magazines

Beyond the maths classroom: how trusts can support teacher professionalism

What role can trust leaders play in supporting maths teachers to flourish professionally?

FAQs

Answers to the questions most frequently asked

Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths

What maths to teach for the rest of 2020/21

The latest issue of the NCETM Secondary Round-up is out!

Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available

Why mastery makes us optimistic about our next GCSE results

Article by Jenny Laurie, Deputy Head at The St Marylebone CE School, London

The answer is only the beginning

A look at two of this year’s KS2 SATs questions, analysing the demands made on pupils and the mathematical thinking required

Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 6