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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

John’s 40-40-40 challenge: mission accomplished!

NCETM Director for System Leadership, John Westwell, has completed a parkrun in every Maths Hub region in England

Debbie Morgan receives CBE

The NCETM’s Primary Director is included in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2021/22 now available

30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development options

What is a Work Group?

Find out what Work Groups are and how they work

Number and Place Value | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 6

Five Big Ideas in Teaching for Mastery

The fundamental characteristics that underpin teaching for mastery in all school and college phases

Mixed-age curriculum case studies

These case studies offer insight into two commonly-used approaches to mixed-age teaching: mixed-age split-class teaching and mixed-age whole-class teaching

Prepare your Year 6 pupils for SATs

Ensure Year 6 pupils have the understanding they need to progress by using our handpicked resources

Aligning curriculum and assessment reform with teaching for mastery in secondary maths (part 1)

Charlie Stripp and Carol Knights suggest ways in which the curriculum and assessment of secondary mathematics might be improved

Top tips for teaching GCSE resit

Useful pointers from teachers in a Maths Hub GCSE resit Work Group

Representations in our primary video lessons

Mathematical structure, manipulatives and myth-busting

Don’t abandon counters just because it’s secondary school

At Trinity Academy in Halifax all teachers are now using place value counters with students across the ability range

Cardinality and number sense

What is cardinality? Why is it important? And how can we help children develop an understanding?

No need to differentiate in primary school maths lessons

Debbie Morgan explains why all children should be included in all aspects of a primary maths lesson

The Five Big Ideas at Primary – Fluency

Is fluency just about recalling facts?

Securing Foundations at Year 7: exploring a year of impact

Director for Secondary, Carol Knights, shares highlights from an innovative programme aimed at closing the gap in Year 7 maths

Meeting the needs of all without ability setting

Removing setting from maths teaching in a three-form entry primary school

Measurement | Year 3

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 3

Questioning Marking?

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

How can the NCETM help secondary teachers with Covid recovery?

Guidance, training materials and videos that unpick the teaching of specific topics.

Eight reasons to join a Maths Hubs secondary CPD project

Free CPD? Local collaboration? Department-wide impact? Maths Hubs Work Groups have it all – and more

Mastery Myth-busting

We dispel some of the common myths about teaching for mastery

Smoothing the KS2 to KS3 maths transition

Find out how one school harnessed the mastery approach used in its feeder schools to support new Year 7 students

An Introduction to the Five Big Ideas at Secondary

In an introduction to our series on the Five Big Ideas at Secondary, we explore the principles that underpin teaching for mastery

Spotlight on LLMEs – Early Years SKTM

Hear from a Cohort Lead on the Early Years Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Programme

Spotlight on LLMEs – Early Years SKTM Programme

Hear from Helen Hackett about what it’s like to lead an Early Years Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM) Programme cohort for her local Maths Hub

Moving beyond quick fixes in FE maths

Emma Bell explores new government guidance and what it reveals about effective practice in post-16 maths

Maths competitions – use them to motivate all students, not just the ‘brightest’

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Numberblocks support materials

Materials to support Early Years and Year 1 teachers

Using maths storybooks to engage children

Mini ‘stories’ can be an effective way to reveal mathematical structure and are a common feature in some of the best maths textbooks

Introducing multiplicative thinking

Building in small steps to ensure all children develop understanding early on in primary school

Ideas for collaboration in secondary maths teaching

Work with your colleagues to plan lessons and develop your own knowledge and pedagogy

Equity for all pupils: Blackpool schools open their classrooms

We share how schools in one of Britain’s most economically-challenged areas are working with their local Maths Hub to ensure all pupils can succeed

Addition and Subtraction | Year 4

National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 4

Measurement | Year 5

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 5

Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 1

National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 1

Measurement | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 6

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?

Aligning curriculum and assessment reform with teaching for mastery in secondary maths (part 2)

Charlie Stripp and Carol Knights continue their two-part discussion with a focus on how secondary maths assessment could be improved

Understanding multiplicative relationships

Do your students know that, for any two numbers, there’s always a unique third number that links them multiplicatively?

Six resources for teaching and learning times tables

How do your pupils learn times tables? From digestible research to interesting resources, these ideas will help you reflect

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

Which KS3 topic are you teaching next?

New videos, PowerPoint slides and guidance documents provide ideas and resources for teaching KS3 topics

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

Statistics | Year 2

National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 2

Addition and Subtraction | Year 3

National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 3

Supporting Research, Evidence and Argument

Key texts for the key components of teaching for mastery

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!

Five tips for using number lines in Key Stage 1

We look at five ways number lines can be used in KS1 to explore and reason with numbers

Nine reasons to work with your local Maths Hub

Why get involved with the Maths Hubs Programme? Find out how it can benefit you and your school

Bridging the gap: ensuring that all students can succeed in KS3 maths

How one North East secondary school is 'Securing Foundations at Year 7', with a new Maths Hubs project aimed at supporting all students to thrive in the maths classroom

Oracy, inclusion and inspection: a shared language for equity in mathematics

Charlie Stripp and Jane Hawkins explore how oracy supports inclusion, equity and deep mathematical understanding

Spotlight on LLMEs - The School Development Lead Programme

Caroline Small shares her experience of the School Development Lead Programme and how it is developing her leadership across her school and trust

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 time without tears: rethinking how we teach time in Key Stages 1 and 2

Primary teacher and Mastery Specialist, Laura Smith explores how we teach the tricky topic of time, and shares how teaching for mastery concepts can help

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

Multiplication and Division | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 6

Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 3

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

Algebra | Year 6

National Curriculum resources for Algebra – Year 6

Number | KS3

National Curriculum resources for Number – Key Stage 3

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

A practical way to improve lesson planning in secondary school maths teaching?

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Using calculators in Years 6 and 7

When should Year 6 and 7 teachers get the calculators out? And how might they use them?

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

Multiplying by 10 – is it OK to just put a zero?

Find out what our Professional Development Materials say about how children should be taught to multiply by 10

Charlie’s Angles: Guest Blog by Debbie Morgan

The NCETM Director for Primary tells the story of her involvement with the creation of Numberblocks

‘Not working in ability groups has been a revelation’

Eight GCSE maths questions that surprised exam boards

What makes a good (or bad) GCSE question?

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

Teaching maths in the pandemic

How our podcast guests have been adapting their teaching to get round Covid restrictions

Learning fractions shouldn’t be difficult

How a well-sequenced curriculum can unlock understanding for all children

Teaching maths in a real-life context

Teachers discuss the joys, the challenges and good resources

Planning collaboratively and learning together as a department

How a secondary maths department includes everyone in the planning process and fosters shared learning

Professional development for primary teaching assistants

Ensuring impact, effectiveness and pupil progress

Reflections on the 2023 maths examination results

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Spotlight on Work Group Leads - Developing A Level Pedagogy

A Post-16 Work Group Lead explains what's involved

Spotlight on LLMEs – Developing Core Maths Pedagogy

Hear from a maths teacher about the professional development she leads for her local Maths Hub

Aligning curriculum reform and assessment with teaching for mastery in primary maths

Charlie Stripp and Debbie Morgan respond to a recent TES article by Peter Foulds and David Thomas regarding the primary curriculum and potential reform

Becoming an LLME – what do I need to know?

A summary of our February 2025 Week in Focus across social media

Mastering Number success in a special school setting

At Rocklands School in Lichfield, children with complex learning needs are being supported to develop confidence and fluency in maths with the Mastering Number Programme

Spotlight on LLMEs – Primary Teaching Assistants

Hear from a Cohort Lead on the Primary Teaching Assistants Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Programme

Embedding multiplicative understanding through Mastering Number at KS2

How a Preston primary school is transforming pupil confidence, fluency and enjoyment of maths from Reception to KS2 through Mastering Number

Strengthening Secondary Maths: Reflections from my first weeks as Director for Secondary Mathematics

Nicola Trubridge reflects on key issues in secondary maths, including what the EEF’s new research study on student grouping reveals about what matters most for students

Mathematical talk as a mechanism for learning: oracy in the maths classroom

The NCETM’s Jane Hawkins reflects on a conversation with Maths Hub Equity Lead for Oracy, Suzi Telford, and her approach to purposeful mathematical talk

Reflecting on the proposed new Level 1 maths qualifications for 16- to 19-year-olds

Why coherence, secure understanding and progression should underpin a new Level 1 maths qualification

Time

Unit 11 – 1 week

Sense of measure – capacity, volume, mass

Unit 14 – 2 weeks

Mixed-age mastery – making it work in KS2

A primary school in Harrogate has developed a two-year rolling programme that creates more curriculum time

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

Teacher collaboration supports mixed-attainment classes

A London school models one possible way to make the transition

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

TSM Spotlight – Copnor Primary School, Portsmouth

How Enhanced support has helped a maths lead at a large primary school in Hampshire to develop a revised maths curriculum

Developing playful mathematics in Key Stage 1

How re-thinking early childhood mathematics experiences in KS1 led to a more playful approach to maths in an East Midlands primary school

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

‘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

Shanghai Surprise!

An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp

Ten resources for GCSE maths revision lessons

A selection of sites and resources that will help with your lesson and homework planning this revision season

Establishing strong foundations at Key Stage 3

How one secondary school developed a bespoke curriculum for KS3 students to give them the best start in maths