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Why might the word ‘ratio’ cause confusion for students learning trigonometry?
After watching how a Shanghai teacher approaches it, Gwen Tresidder reassesses her own understanding
Lessons from this summer's maths exam results
How secondary schools can continue to recover from the downward trends caused by the pandemic
Primary ITE professional development materials
Six professional development units designed for ITE tutors to use with primary trainee teachers exploring maths
North Mids Maths Hub
Led by Painsley Catholic College, Cheadle, Staffordshire
Teaching about climate change in the maths classroom
Two authors talk about their new resources and suggest tips for addressing social issues through maths
Working together to improve GCSE Maths outcomes in Stoke
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
NCETM Newsletter - September 2022
Summer exam results, two new podcast episodes, maths on holiday - and more
Geometry - position and direction | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - position and direction – Year 1
Secondary Round-up - October 2022
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Statistics | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 6
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
Teacher Degree Apprenticeships offer a new pathway into teaching
A salaried route into teaching that could widen access to the profession
Numberblocks – Series 2
Series 2, all episodes
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 4
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 4
Teaching through the pandemic 2 – Gemma Scott
A secondary head of maths talks about formative and summative assessment strategies under Covid-19 restrictions
Response to Jo Boaler’s view of maths in UK schools
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Position and direction
Unit 10 – 1 week
Ratio and Proportion | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion – Year 6
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
Core Maths: Then, Now and Next
Reflecting on a decade of Core Maths and what comes next, with Professor Paul Glaister CBE
Reflections on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
What mastery has done for our school
Jenny Laurie, deputy head and maths teacher at a central London secondary school, talks about being one of the very earliest to adopt a teaching for mastery approach in maths
Teaching through the pandemic 3 – Simon Ball
A teacher at a sixth form college explains how he teaches students in class and at home at the same time!
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
What is unitising, and why is it important?
This article follows the concept of unitising through Years 1-6, also demonstrating effective curriculum sequencing
Charlie’s Angles: Guest Blog by Debbie Morgan
The NCETM Director for Primary tells the story of her involvement with the creation of Numberblocks
Top tips for teaching GCSE resit
Useful pointers from teachers in a Maths Hub GCSE resit Work Group
Why and how to use the ‘ping pong’ teaching style
Primary Mastery Specialists Faye Glendinning and Sam Shutkever take us through the gritty detail of their episodic lesson planning
Secondary maths teaching in Shanghai: two teachers reflect
Two Mastery Specialist teachers give their impressions of maths teaching in a secondary school in Shanghai
Learning in Lockdown Episode 10 - Hisham Alhassan
A secondary teacher talks about how success with KS5 online lessons has allowed his school to delay Y12 students' return
Learning in Lockdown 4 – Dan Poulson
A secondary head of maths talks about remote learning and planning for life after COVID-19
Learning in Lockdown 8 – Melissa Molnar
A Year 1 teacher talks about leading maths across her school and the wider school partnership
Learning in Lockdown 2 – Jo Brown
A Year 5 teacher talks about how her pupils have engaged and what lessons she will take forward
Learning in Lockdown 3 - Laurie Luscombe
A secondary maths teacher shares his thoughts on remote teaching, student engagement, and how students' home life impacts on learning
Teaching through the pandemic 1 – Martyn Yeo
A Year 4 teacher talks about his enthusiasm for using manipulatives and how he’s adapted for Covid-19 restrictions
Teaching through the pandemic 5 – Kate Jackson
A Year 4 teacher and Mastery Specialist explains how she teaches maths lessons outside and encourages other teachers to have a go
Teaching through the pandemic 6 – James Cresswell
A secondary teacher discusses how he’s managed the change to teaching all-attainment groups in Key Stage 3
Useful tips for tackling multiplicative thinking
Embedding multiplicative thinking across the primary maths curriculum
Spotlight on LLMEs – Early Years SKTM
Hear from a Cohort Lead on the Early Years Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Programme
Primary Archive
An archive of all Primary Round-ups and Magazines
Using the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials
A maths lead tells his school's story
NCETM primary resources, support and teacher CPD for 2022/23
A guided tour around what’s on offer for new and experienced primary teachers at the start of the new school year. Updated September 2023
Numberblocks – Series 3
Series 3, all episodes
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
What can TIMSS tell us about maths in England?
Dr Vivien Townsend from the NCETM talks to NFER's Dr David Thomas about TIMSS 2027 and what international data can tell us about maths education
Shape and Space
Understanding what happens when shapes move, or combine with other shapes, helps develop wider mathematical thinking
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 2
Learning in Lockdown 5 – Nick Edwards
A secondary Director of Maths reflects on how his experience of supporting students through the Grenfell tragedy has informed his current approach to teaching
Behind the scenes of the Mastery Readiness programme
Headteacher, Sarah Hawes and maths lead, Tracey Baruah explain their enthusiasm for what the Mastery Readiness Programme is offering the children in their school
Learning in Lockdown 7 – Laura Behan
An Early Years teacher talks about working in the EYFS bubble as the rest of her school opens up to Reception, Year 1 and Year 6
Learning in Lockdown 9 – Deb Friis
A maths teacher at an 11-16 school in West Sussex, explains how Year 10's first few weeks back worked
Making the most of our new secondary mastery materials
An interview with three of the people behind the recently published Secondary Mastery Professional Development Materials
Learning in Lockdown 1 – Kathryn Darwin
A second in department shares her experiences of the new challenges that learning in lockdown has created, and how she and her school are overcoming them
An audience with the exam boards: the new A level and GCSE 9-1
Representatives from England’s three main exam boards share their thoughts on how students got on with the the new A level and GCSE 9-1
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.
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
Core Maths five years on
What does the course offer post-16 students that don’t do Maths A level, and how can schools/colleges offer it?
Remote teaching returns 1 – Kyle Evans and Kathryn Darwin
Brand new to live online teaching, or almost a year in? Two teachers from both ends of the spectrum discuss what works
Remote teaching returns 2 – Steph Elliot
A Year 6 teacher from Newcastle gives us a window on her primary school’s ‘blended’ approach to providing remote learning
Remote teaching: the digital revolution?
Two tech-enthusiastic teachers discuss what’s been learned by remote teaching, and what still limits learning
The research mathematician and his A level teacher
Douglas Coates talks about his career in maths research and reflects, with his ex-teacher, on learning A level maths
Debbie Morgan discusses differentiation
NCETM’s Director for Primary tells us why she thinks teachers no longer need to provide different work for different children
The ECT and the mentor
How can a maths department and mentor best support their maths ECT?
Susan Okereke: speaker, podcaster and maths teacher
A wide-ranging conversation covering engagement, curriculum, classroom culture, and preparing students for maths beyond school
From GCSE Maths resit to primary school maths lead
A teacher explains what it’s like to lose all your confidence for maths… and then recover it
Observing lessons as part of the England-China exchange programme: new podcasts and videos
How does maths teaching in Shanghai schools look and feel to experienced observing teachers from England?
GCSE re-sits: grasping the nettle
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Geometry - position and direction | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - position and direction – Year 2
Ten minute read: Q&A with Eugenia Cheng
'Is there a relationship between maths, gender and learning? How might it be characterised?' Dr Eugenia Cheng shares her ideas.
Professional development that helps keep great teachers in the classroom
How sustained engagement with their local Maths Hub is supporting teaching and staff retention at Macmillan Academy
Teaching the hardest topics in GCSE maths
Two teachers from South Yorkshire, who lead Work Groups, tell us why teachers should get involved with ‘Challenging Topics at GCSE’
Managing maths in mixed-age classes
We talk to two teachers with years of experience teaching mixed-age classes, who are running Work Groups in their local hubs
Raising girls' participation in maths
Rachel Beddoes explains what the barriers are for girls, and what teachers and schools can do to overcome these
Maths education books – reviewed and distilled
Lisa Coe tells us what she gets from reading ‘edu-books’ and what the summaries on her blog can offer time-poor teachers
Using Checkpoints in the Year 7 classroom
We talk to a Year 7 teacher and one of the authors of our newest secondary classroom resource
Support, ideas and information for teaching Core Maths
A conversation with the AMSP's Core Maths coordinator, and an enthusiastic Core Maths teacher
Looking back on ten years of Maths Hubs
Charlie Stripp reflects on ten years of the Maths Hubs Programme
Multiplication and Division | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 4
Online CPD: the unexpected gains
We speak to three Maths Hubs about how they moved their CPD offer online, what they learned, and what’s next
Probability and Statistics | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Probability and Statistics – Key Stage 3
How maths textbooks are making a comeback
Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery
The Five Big Ideas at Primary – Coherence
Why is Coherence one of the Five Big Ideas in Teaching for Mastery? And what does it mean for primary maths teachers?
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
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
Geometry and Measures | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Geometry and Measures – Key Stage 3
Number and Place Value | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 3
Outstanding schools, Ofsted and mastery
Find out how three schools deliver maths through teaching for mastery, and why Ofsted liked what they saw
TIMSS 2023 results published
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) confirms that England has maintained its high global performance in mathematics
Why might the word ‘ratio’ cause confusion for students learning trigonometry?
After watching how a Shanghai teacher approaches it, Gwen Tresidder reassesses her own understanding
Lessons from this summer's maths exam results
How secondary schools can continue to recover from the downward trends caused by the pandemic
Teaching about climate change in the maths classroom
Two authors talk about their new resources and suggest tips for addressing social issues through maths
Working together to improve GCSE Maths outcomes in Stoke
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
NCETM Newsletter - September 2022
Summer exam results, two new podcast episodes, maths on holiday - and more
Secondary Round-up - October 2022
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
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
Teacher Degree Apprenticeships offer a new pathway into teaching
A salaried route into teaching that could widen access to the profession
GCSE Maths 9-1: How did it perform in its second summer?
Representatives from England’s three main exam boards share their thoughts
Teaching through the pandemic 2 – Gemma Scott
A secondary head of maths talks about formative and summative assessment strategies under Covid-19 restrictions
Response to Jo Boaler’s view of maths in UK schools
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
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
Core Maths: Then, Now and Next
Reflecting on a decade of Core Maths and what comes next, with Professor Paul Glaister CBE
Reflections on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
What mastery has done for our school
Jenny Laurie, deputy head and maths teacher at a central London secondary school, talks about being one of the very earliest to adopt a teaching for mastery approach in maths
Teaching through the pandemic 3 – Simon Ball
A teacher at a sixth form college explains how he teaches students in class and at home at the same time!
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
What is unitising, and why is it important?
This article follows the concept of unitising through Years 1-6, also demonstrating effective curriculum sequencing
Charlie’s Angles: Guest Blog by Debbie Morgan
The NCETM Director for Primary tells the story of her involvement with the creation of Numberblocks
Top tips for teaching GCSE resit
Useful pointers from teachers in a Maths Hub GCSE resit Work Group
Why and how to use the ‘ping pong’ teaching style
Primary Mastery Specialists Faye Glendinning and Sam Shutkever take us through the gritty detail of their episodic lesson planning
Secondary maths teaching in Shanghai: two teachers reflect
Two Mastery Specialist teachers give their impressions of maths teaching in a secondary school in Shanghai
Learning in Lockdown Episode 10 - Hisham Alhassan
A secondary teacher talks about how success with KS5 online lessons has allowed his school to delay Y12 students' return
Learning in Lockdown 4 – Dan Poulson
A secondary head of maths talks about remote learning and planning for life after COVID-19
Learning in Lockdown 8 – Melissa Molnar
A Year 1 teacher talks about leading maths across her school and the wider school partnership
Learning in Lockdown 2 – Jo Brown
A Year 5 teacher talks about how her pupils have engaged and what lessons she will take forward
Learning in Lockdown 3 - Laurie Luscombe
A secondary maths teacher shares his thoughts on remote teaching, student engagement, and how students' home life impacts on learning
Teaching through the pandemic 1 – Martyn Yeo
A Year 4 teacher talks about his enthusiasm for using manipulatives and how he’s adapted for Covid-19 restrictions
Teaching through the pandemic 5 – Kate Jackson
A Year 4 teacher and Mastery Specialist explains how she teaches maths lessons outside and encourages other teachers to have a go
Teaching through the pandemic 6 – James Cresswell
A secondary teacher discusses how he’s managed the change to teaching all-attainment groups in Key Stage 3
Useful tips for tackling multiplicative thinking
Embedding multiplicative thinking across the primary maths curriculum
Spotlight on LLMEs – Early Years SKTM
Hear from a Cohort Lead on the Early Years Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Programme
Using the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials
A maths lead tells his school's story
NCETM primary resources, support and teacher CPD for 2022/23
A guided tour around what’s on offer for new and experienced primary teachers at the start of the new school year. Updated September 2023
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
What can TIMSS tell us about maths in England?
Dr Vivien Townsend from the NCETM talks to NFER's Dr David Thomas about TIMSS 2027 and what international data can tell us about maths education
Learning in Lockdown 5 – Nick Edwards
A secondary Director of Maths reflects on how his experience of supporting students through the Grenfell tragedy has informed his current approach to teaching
Behind the scenes of the Mastery Readiness programme
Headteacher, Sarah Hawes and maths lead, Tracey Baruah explain their enthusiasm for what the Mastery Readiness Programme is offering the children in their school
Learning in Lockdown 7 – Laura Behan
An Early Years teacher talks about working in the EYFS bubble as the rest of her school opens up to Reception, Year 1 and Year 6
Learning in Lockdown 9 – Deb Friis
A maths teacher at an 11-16 school in West Sussex, explains how Year 10's first few weeks back worked
Making the most of our new secondary mastery materials
An interview with three of the people behind the recently published Secondary Mastery Professional Development Materials
Learning in Lockdown 1 – Kathryn Darwin
A second in department shares her experiences of the new challenges that learning in lockdown has created, and how she and her school are overcoming them
An audience with the exam boards: the new A level and GCSE 9-1
Representatives from England’s three main exam boards share their thoughts on how students got on with the the new A level and GCSE 9-1
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.
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
Core Maths five years on
What does the course offer post-16 students that don’t do Maths A level, and how can schools/colleges offer it?
Remote teaching returns 1 – Kyle Evans and Kathryn Darwin
Brand new to live online teaching, or almost a year in? Two teachers from both ends of the spectrum discuss what works
Remote teaching returns 2 – Steph Elliot
A Year 6 teacher from Newcastle gives us a window on her primary school’s ‘blended’ approach to providing remote learning
Remote teaching: the digital revolution?
Two tech-enthusiastic teachers discuss what’s been learned by remote teaching, and what still limits learning
The research mathematician and his A level teacher
Douglas Coates talks about his career in maths research and reflects, with his ex-teacher, on learning A level maths
Debbie Morgan discusses differentiation
NCETM’s Director for Primary tells us why she thinks teachers no longer need to provide different work for different children
The ECT and the mentor
How can a maths department and mentor best support their maths ECT?
Susan Okereke: speaker, podcaster and maths teacher
A wide-ranging conversation covering engagement, curriculum, classroom culture, and preparing students for maths beyond school
From GCSE Maths resit to primary school maths lead
A teacher explains what it’s like to lose all your confidence for maths… and then recover it
Observing lessons as part of the England-China exchange programme: new podcasts and videos
How does maths teaching in Shanghai schools look and feel to experienced observing teachers from England?
GCSE re-sits: grasping the nettle
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Ten minute read: Q&A with Eugenia Cheng
'Is there a relationship between maths, gender and learning? How might it be characterised?' Dr Eugenia Cheng shares her ideas.
Professional development that helps keep great teachers in the classroom
How sustained engagement with their local Maths Hub is supporting teaching and staff retention at Macmillan Academy
Teaching the hardest topics in GCSE maths
Two teachers from South Yorkshire, who lead Work Groups, tell us why teachers should get involved with ‘Challenging Topics at GCSE’
Managing maths in mixed-age classes
We talk to two teachers with years of experience teaching mixed-age classes, who are running Work Groups in their local hubs
Raising girls' participation in maths
Rachel Beddoes explains what the barriers are for girls, and what teachers and schools can do to overcome these
Maths education books – reviewed and distilled
Lisa Coe tells us what she gets from reading ‘edu-books’ and what the summaries on her blog can offer time-poor teachers
Using Checkpoints in the Year 7 classroom
We talk to a Year 7 teacher and one of the authors of our newest secondary classroom resource
Support, ideas and information for teaching Core Maths
A conversation with the AMSP's Core Maths coordinator, and an enthusiastic Core Maths teacher
Looking back on ten years of Maths Hubs
Charlie Stripp reflects on ten years of the Maths Hubs Programme
Online CPD: the unexpected gains
We speak to three Maths Hubs about how they moved their CPD offer online, what they learned, and what’s next
How maths textbooks are making a comeback
Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery
The Five Big Ideas at Primary – Coherence
Why is Coherence one of the Five Big Ideas in Teaching for Mastery? And what does it mean for primary maths teachers?
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
Outstanding schools, Ofsted and mastery
Find out how three schools deliver maths through teaching for mastery, and why Ofsted liked what they saw
Primary ITE professional development materials
Six professional development units designed for ITE tutors to use with primary trainee teachers exploring maths
Numberblocks – Series 2
Series 2, all episodes
Position and direction
Unit 10 – 1 week
Numberblocks – Series 3
Series 3, all episodes
Shape and Space
Understanding what happens when shapes move, or combine with other shapes, helps develop wider mathematical thinking