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Mini ‘stories’ can be an effective way to reveal mathematical structure and are a common feature in some of the best maths textbooks
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Prepare your Year 6 pupils for SATs
Ensure Year 6 pupils have the understanding they need to progress by using our handpicked resources
NCETM Primary Mastery Professional Development Materials
A discussion with the two lead editors of the PD materials
October's Secondary Round-up is out
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
NCETM Newsletter - April 2024
New KS3 projects, CPD for 2024/25, work with us, and more
New CPD opportunities for KS3 teachers
Support your Year 7s and develop students’ multiplicative reasoning skills
Primary Round-up - March 2024
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Secondary Round-up - February 2024
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Insights from experienced teachers
Pairs of teachers explore small sections of the mastery materials in depth
CODE Maths Hub
Led by Truro and Penwith College, Cornwall
Maths competitions – use them to motivate all students, not just the ‘brightest’
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
GCSE re-sits: grasping the nettle
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Maths, Mindsets and Mastery
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
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?
Why we employed a primary teacher for maths in our secondary school
How one school employed a primary teacher to help introduce mastery
Understanding multiplicative relationships
Do your students know that, for any two numbers, there’s always a unique third number that links them multiplicatively?
Guest blog by Jane Jones HMI, Ofsted
What are the implications for Ofsted evaluation if the mastery principle is followed rigorously?
The importance of Core Maths and the support available
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
If it’s Friday, it must be GCSE re-sit
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Improving children’s confidence in maths starts with parents
What one primary teacher has done to improve children's confidence by engaging parents in learning maths
Outstanding schools, Ofsted and mastery
Find out how three schools deliver maths through teaching for mastery, and why Ofsted liked what they saw
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
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
What is unitising, and why is it important?
This article follows the concept of unitising through Years 1-6, also demonstrating effective curriculum sequencing
Raising the status of professional development
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Summer holiday reading 2019
A round-up of our recent features, which might stimulate your thinking for September
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
Questioning Marking?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
How maths textbooks are making a comeback
Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery
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
Maths Podcasts: CPD direct to your ears
Podcast listening is on the up and can play a role in maths CPD
An unexpected angle to teaching congruent triangles
Secondary teacher, Ben Waine, tells how a student insight uncovered special cases when two sides and an angle (ASS/SSA) do provide conditions for congruency.
Why mastery makes us optimistic about our next GCSE results
Article by Jenny Laurie, Deputy Head at The St Marylebone CE School, London
Number bonds to 10 using bead strings: a lightbulb moment
Stevie Devlin reflects on what he saw in a Year 1 lesson.
A maths book isn't just for Christmas
Six maths books out in 2019 that might help you enhance your teaching
How the NCETM's mastery materials are making an impact
How our Professional Development materials can help you consolidate your subject knowledge, plan your maths lessons effectively and be assured that your pupils will grasp concepts with confidence
Response to Jo Boaler’s view of maths in UK schools
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
What have you missed? What’s coming up?
A summary of our publications in 2018/19, and a look ahead to what's coming in 2019/20
Shanghai Surprise!
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Improving maths in multi-academy trusts by engaging with Maths Hubs
A profile of two multi-academy trusts (MATs) reaping the rewards of participation in Maths Hubs teaching for mastery work
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
An effective model for collaborative planning in maths
At Southfields Academy collaborative planning sessions have led to improved lesson quality, reduced planning time, and better staff retention
Top tips for teaching GCSE resit
Useful pointers from teachers in a Maths Hub GCSE resit Work Group
Charlie’s Angles: Guest Blog by Debbie Morgan
The NCETM Director for Primary tells the story of her involvement with the creation of Numberblocks
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
Reflections on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
The Joy of Cancelling!
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Five resources for planning your post-mock exam lessons
We’ve picked out some sites to help you make the most of your Year 11s’ mock exams and analyse their results
How can schools and colleges offer Core Maths?
How a variety of colleges and schools are managing the logistics of offering Core Maths
How variation has changed my teaching
Article by Jayne Webster, who teaches maths at Denbigh School in Milton Keynes
Eight GCSE maths questions that surprised exam boards
What makes a good (or bad) GCSE question?
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.
PISA results for mathematics – how can they help us?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Mastery in mathematics: What it is and why we should be doing it
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
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!
T levels: what maths teachers need to know
What maths teachers need to know about the post-16 qualifications that will stand alongside A levels and apprenticeships
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
Working together to improve GCSE Maths outcomes in Stoke
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Language and maths: teaching EAL pupils
Gabriel Flores, teaching in Bangkok, found out how numbers and fractions are expressed in Thai, and used this to understand how his EAL pupils grasp mathematical structure
Performance measures and early-entry GCSE
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
England-China teacher exchange 2016/17: Seeing Shanghai teaching at first hand
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
How can we meet the needs of all pupils without differentiation of lesson content? How can we record progress without levels?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Covid recovery primary maths resources
Training materials, PowerPoints, videos and more are here to help primary schools plan maths teaching for the new school year
Two pleas to maths teachers at the start of the school year
The NCETM’s Director, Charlie Stripp, has warned of the dangers of putting pressure on pupils to ‘catch-up’
How can the NCETM help secondary teachers with Covid recovery?
Guidance, training materials and videos that unpick the teaching of specific topics.
Get involved with your Maths Hub this year
There’s a range of ways for teachers and schools to engage with their local Maths Hub
Two bits of good maths news
Year 11s getting better than their predecessors while A level and Core Maths remains popular
Understanding students’ mathematical wrong turns
What two secondary teachers learnt from carefully listening to students’ responses to mathematical prompts
Which KS3 topic are you teaching next?
New videos, PowerPoint slides and guidance documents provide ideas and resources for teaching KS3 topics
Teaching maths in the pandemic
How our podcast guests have been adapting their teaching to get round Covid restrictions
Representations in our primary video lessons
Mathematical structure, manipulatives and myth-busting
Thank-you to all teachers of maths
Despite unprecedented challenges, teachers have kept maths education on track
Five reasons to visit the NCETM Q&C Twitter account
Secondary maths teachers will find up-to-date qualifications and curriculum info all in one place
Twitter discussions about teaching maths in all phases
Join our Tuesday evening chats or read summaries on our website
Teachers helping teachers, wherever they are
How the latest lockdown has led to an outpouring of no-strings generosity across the maths education landscape
Five ways to use our Planning to teach videos and resources
Explore ideas for lockdown learning, remote teaching and online CPD
Teaching maths online in the pandemic
Sources of support and accounts of how teachers are overcoming the hurdles
NCETM primary video lessons for remote learning in 2021
Even if you’re not setting maths to be accessed independently, our videos can support your remote provision
Whole-school approach to learning times tables
How groups of primary schools have been introducing a twin-track approach to times-tables learning
Five activities that make maths department meetings worthwhile
What secondary teachers said they love about the regular meetings with colleagues in their department
How are schools determining maths grades this year?
We ask around a few schools and MATs
Getting maths back on track in Years 10 to 13
Tailored support for teachers and students from the Advanced Maths Support Programme
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM)
For secondary non-specialists: a new Maths Hubs CPD programme for 2021/22
What maths shall we do with Year 6 this term?
We’ve gathered suggestions about preparing pupils for transition in this disrupted year
Teaching pie charts
How to help students do the calculations needed to construct a very familiar representation
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
Resources and features from the NCETM in 2020/21
What you might have missed and what’s coming up…
Resources and CPD for the new school year
Autumn term support for maths teaching available from the NCETM and Maths Hubs
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
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
Cardinality and number sense
What is cardinality? Why is it important? And how can we help children develop an understanding?
Key Stage 3: never more crucial than now
How NCETM resources and Maths Hubs CPD programmes can help repair any damage to learning caused by the pandemic
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
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?
Learning fractions shouldn’t be difficult
How a well-sequenced curriculum can unlock understanding for all children
Teaching ordinality – more than just first, second and third
Ordinality, put simply, is where numbers come in the number system and their relationship to each other. But there’s more to it than that…
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
Prepare your Year 6 pupils for SATs
Ensure Year 6 pupils have the understanding they need to progress by using our handpicked resources
NCETM Primary Mastery Professional Development Materials
A discussion with the two lead editors of the PD materials
October's Secondary Round-up is out
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
NCETM Newsletter - April 2024
New KS3 projects, CPD for 2024/25, work with us, and more
New CPD opportunities for KS3 teachers
Support your Year 7s and develop students’ multiplicative reasoning skills
Primary Round-up - March 2024
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Secondary Round-up - February 2024
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Maths competitions – use them to motivate all students, not just the ‘brightest’
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
GCSE re-sits: grasping the nettle
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Maths, Mindsets and Mastery
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
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?
Why we employed a primary teacher for maths in our secondary school
How one school employed a primary teacher to help introduce mastery
Understanding multiplicative relationships
Do your students know that, for any two numbers, there’s always a unique third number that links them multiplicatively?
Guest blog by Jane Jones HMI, Ofsted
What are the implications for Ofsted evaluation if the mastery principle is followed rigorously?
The importance of Core Maths and the support available
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
If it’s Friday, it must be GCSE re-sit
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Improving children’s confidence in maths starts with parents
What one primary teacher has done to improve children's confidence by engaging parents in learning maths
Outstanding schools, Ofsted and mastery
Find out how three schools deliver maths through teaching for mastery, and why Ofsted liked what they saw
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
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
What is unitising, and why is it important?
This article follows the concept of unitising through Years 1-6, also demonstrating effective curriculum sequencing
Raising the status of professional development
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Summer holiday reading 2019
A round-up of our recent features, which might stimulate your thinking for September
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
Questioning Marking?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
How maths textbooks are making a comeback
Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery
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
Maths Podcasts: CPD direct to your ears
Podcast listening is on the up and can play a role in maths CPD
An unexpected angle to teaching congruent triangles
Secondary teacher, Ben Waine, tells how a student insight uncovered special cases when two sides and an angle (ASS/SSA) do provide conditions for congruency.
Why mastery makes us optimistic about our next GCSE results
Article by Jenny Laurie, Deputy Head at The St Marylebone CE School, London
Number bonds to 10 using bead strings: a lightbulb moment
Stevie Devlin reflects on what he saw in a Year 1 lesson.
A maths book isn't just for Christmas
Six maths books out in 2019 that might help you enhance your teaching
How the NCETM's mastery materials are making an impact
How our Professional Development materials can help you consolidate your subject knowledge, plan your maths lessons effectively and be assured that your pupils will grasp concepts with confidence
Response to Jo Boaler’s view of maths in UK schools
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
What have you missed? What’s coming up?
A summary of our publications in 2018/19, and a look ahead to what's coming in 2019/20
Shanghai Surprise!
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Improving maths in multi-academy trusts by engaging with Maths Hubs
A profile of two multi-academy trusts (MATs) reaping the rewards of participation in Maths Hubs teaching for mastery work
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
An effective model for collaborative planning in maths
At Southfields Academy collaborative planning sessions have led to improved lesson quality, reduced planning time, and better staff retention
Top tips for teaching GCSE resit
Useful pointers from teachers in a Maths Hub GCSE resit Work Group
Charlie’s Angles: Guest Blog by Debbie Morgan
The NCETM Director for Primary tells the story of her involvement with the creation of Numberblocks
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
Reflections on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
The Joy of Cancelling!
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Five resources for planning your post-mock exam lessons
We’ve picked out some sites to help you make the most of your Year 11s’ mock exams and analyse their results
How can schools and colleges offer Core Maths?
How a variety of colleges and schools are managing the logistics of offering Core Maths
How variation has changed my teaching
Article by Jayne Webster, who teaches maths at Denbigh School in Milton Keynes
Eight GCSE maths questions that surprised exam boards
What makes a good (or bad) GCSE question?
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.
PISA results for mathematics – how can they help us?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Mastery in mathematics: What it is and why we should be doing it
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
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!
T levels: what maths teachers need to know
What maths teachers need to know about the post-16 qualifications that will stand alongside A levels and apprenticeships
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
Working together to improve GCSE Maths outcomes in Stoke
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Language and maths: teaching EAL pupils
Gabriel Flores, teaching in Bangkok, found out how numbers and fractions are expressed in Thai, and used this to understand how his EAL pupils grasp mathematical structure
Performance measures and early-entry GCSE
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
England-China teacher exchange 2016/17: Seeing Shanghai teaching at first hand
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
How can we meet the needs of all pupils without differentiation of lesson content? How can we record progress without levels?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Covid recovery primary maths resources
Training materials, PowerPoints, videos and more are here to help primary schools plan maths teaching for the new school year
Two pleas to maths teachers at the start of the school year
The NCETM’s Director, Charlie Stripp, has warned of the dangers of putting pressure on pupils to ‘catch-up’
How can the NCETM help secondary teachers with Covid recovery?
Guidance, training materials and videos that unpick the teaching of specific topics.
Get involved with your Maths Hub this year
There’s a range of ways for teachers and schools to engage with their local Maths Hub
Two bits of good maths news
Year 11s getting better than their predecessors while A level and Core Maths remains popular
Understanding students’ mathematical wrong turns
What two secondary teachers learnt from carefully listening to students’ responses to mathematical prompts
Which KS3 topic are you teaching next?
New videos, PowerPoint slides and guidance documents provide ideas and resources for teaching KS3 topics
Teaching maths in the pandemic
How our podcast guests have been adapting their teaching to get round Covid restrictions
Representations in our primary video lessons
Mathematical structure, manipulatives and myth-busting
Thank-you to all teachers of maths
Despite unprecedented challenges, teachers have kept maths education on track
Five reasons to visit the NCETM Q&C Twitter account
Secondary maths teachers will find up-to-date qualifications and curriculum info all in one place
Twitter discussions about teaching maths in all phases
Join our Tuesday evening chats or read summaries on our website
Teachers helping teachers, wherever they are
How the latest lockdown has led to an outpouring of no-strings generosity across the maths education landscape
Five ways to use our Planning to teach videos and resources
Explore ideas for lockdown learning, remote teaching and online CPD
Teaching maths online in the pandemic
Sources of support and accounts of how teachers are overcoming the hurdles
NCETM primary video lessons for remote learning in 2021
Even if you’re not setting maths to be accessed independently, our videos can support your remote provision
Whole-school approach to learning times tables
How groups of primary schools have been introducing a twin-track approach to times-tables learning
Five activities that make maths department meetings worthwhile
What secondary teachers said they love about the regular meetings with colleagues in their department
How are schools determining maths grades this year?
We ask around a few schools and MATs
Getting maths back on track in Years 10 to 13
Tailored support for teachers and students from the Advanced Maths Support Programme
Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM)
For secondary non-specialists: a new Maths Hubs CPD programme for 2021/22
What maths shall we do with Year 6 this term?
We’ve gathered suggestions about preparing pupils for transition in this disrupted year
Teaching pie charts
How to help students do the calculations needed to construct a very familiar representation
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
Resources and features from the NCETM in 2020/21
What you might have missed and what’s coming up…
Resources and CPD for the new school year
Autumn term support for maths teaching available from the NCETM and Maths Hubs
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
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
Cardinality and number sense
What is cardinality? Why is it important? And how can we help children develop an understanding?
Key Stage 3: never more crucial than now
How NCETM resources and Maths Hubs CPD programmes can help repair any damage to learning caused by the pandemic
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
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?
Learning fractions shouldn’t be difficult
How a well-sequenced curriculum can unlock understanding for all children
Teaching ordinality – more than just first, second and third
Ordinality, put simply, is where numbers come in the number system and their relationship to each other. But there’s more to it than that…
Insights from experienced teachers
Pairs of teachers explore small sections of the mastery materials in depth