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Comparing different aspects such as length, weight and volume, as a preliminary to using units to compare later
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World Book Day through a maths lens
What’s your class doing? Have you considered celebrating the day mathematically using maths story picture books?
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
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.
Fractions | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 2
Measurement | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 5
Measurement | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 2
Measurement | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 1
Multiplicative Reasoning
Lesson videos on representations in terms of the bar model and double number line are used to support reasoning and problem solving
Algebra | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Algebra – Year 6
Fractions | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 1
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 6
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 5
Measurement | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 3
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 3
Perimeter
Unit 3 – 2 weeks
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 4
Ratio and Proportion and Rates of Change | KS3
National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion and Rates of Change – KS3
Measurement | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 6
Fractions | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 6
Geometry and Measures | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Geometry and Measures – Key Stage 3
Structures: using measures and comparison to understand scaling
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.17
Number | KS3
National Curriculum resources for Number – Key Stage 3
Fractions | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 4
Fractions
Unit 10 – 2 weeks
Multiplicative contexts: area and perimeter 1
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.16
Numbers 0 to 20
Unit 8 – 4 weeks
Guidance on the teaching of fractions in Key Stage 1
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.0
Area and scaling
Unit 5 – 5 weeks
Draw, compose and decompose shapes
Unit 4 – 2 weeks
Area, perimeter, position and direction
Unit 6 – 2 weeks
Sense of measure – capacity, volume, mass
Unit 14 – 2 weeks
Secondary Round-up - May 2025
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Right angles
Unit 3 – 2 weeks
Preparing for fractions: the part–whole relationship
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.1
Adding and subtracting within one whole
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.4
Comparison of quantities and part–whole relationships
Unit 2 – 3 weeks
NCETM Newsletter - Easter 2020
Coronavirus: End of term message
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
Unit fractions: identifying, representing and comparing
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.2
Numbers to 1,000
Unit 2 – 10 weeks
Using a high quality textbook to support teaching for mastery
We visit the classroom of Hannah Gray, a primary teacher involved in trialling new Singapore-style textbooks, designed to support a mastery approach
Numbers 10 to 100
Unit 1 – 4 weeks
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?
Multiplication with three factors and volume
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.20
Multiplicative contexts: area and perimeter 2
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.30
Comparison of quantities and measures
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.1
Decimal fractions
Unit 1 – 5 weeks
Introducing the Trailblazers
NCETM Director for Post-16 GCSE/FSQ, Emma Bell, shares details of a new cohort of Mastery Specialists
Measurement | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 4
Calculating with decimal fractions
Unit 6 – 3 weeks
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.
Multiplication and Division | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 5
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…
Addition and Subtraction | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 6
Using the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials
A maths lead tells his school's story
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
Ratio and Proportion | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion – Year 6
Number and Place Value | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 5
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
I Can’t Do Maths - Part 2
Challenging the way we think about maths teaching and learning with Professors Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair
I Can’t Do Maths - Part 3
Challenging the way we think about maths teaching and learning with Professors Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair
Multiplication and Division | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 4
Counting on a good read: maths books we love for World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day we share some of our favourite books about maths for all ages
Statistics | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 4
Statistics
Unit 8 – 1 week
Number and Place Value | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 3
Teacher collaboration supports mixed-attainment classes
A London school models one possible way to make the transition
How one secondary school is using Checkpoints at KS3
We visit a school in Lancashire pioneering their use
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
Addition and Subtraction | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 1
Probability and Statistics | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Probability and Statistics – Key Stage 3
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
Exploring comparison in Early Years
What is comparison? And how can we help children develop a secure understanding of this mathematical concept?
Shape and Space
Understanding what happens when shapes move, or combine with other shapes, helps develop wider mathematical thinking
The Bar Model
A representation used to expose mathematical structure
Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths
A term-by-term framework to support planning and teaching
Number and Place Value | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 6
Teaching for mastery: isn’t it just 'good teaching'?
Emma Patman, a Year 4 teacher, explains how her teaching has been transformed by her exposure to teaching for mastery pedagogy
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 1
Addition and Subtraction | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 5
Primary Archive
An archive of all Primary Round-ups and Magazines
Number and Place Value | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 1
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 2
Number and Place Value | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 2
Fractions | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 3
Algebra | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Algebra – Key Stage 3
World Book Day through a maths lens
What’s your class doing? Have you considered celebrating the day mathematically using maths story picture books?
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
Secondary Round-up - May 2025
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
NCETM Newsletter - Easter 2020
Coronavirus: End of term message
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
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?
Introducing the Trailblazers
NCETM Director for Post-16 GCSE/FSQ, Emma Bell, shares details of a new cohort of Mastery Specialists
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.
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 the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials
A maths lead tells his school's story
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
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
I Can’t Do Maths - Part 2
Challenging the way we think about maths teaching and learning with Professors Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair
I Can’t Do Maths - Part 3
Challenging the way we think about maths teaching and learning with Professors Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair
Counting on a good read: maths books we love for World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day we share some of our favourite books about maths for all ages
How one secondary school is using Checkpoints at KS3
We visit a school in Lancashire pioneering their use
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
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
Exploring comparison in Early Years
What is comparison? And how can we help children develop a secure understanding of this mathematical concept?
Measures
Comparing different aspects such as length, weight and volume, as a preliminary to using units to compare later
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.
Multiplicative Reasoning
Lesson videos on representations in terms of the bar model and double number line are used to support reasoning and problem solving
Perimeter
Unit 3 – 2 weeks
Structures: using measures and comparison to understand scaling
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.17
Fractions
Unit 10 – 2 weeks
Multiplicative contexts: area and perimeter 1
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.16
Numbers 0 to 20
Unit 8 – 4 weeks
Guidance on the teaching of fractions in Key Stage 1
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.0
Area and scaling
Unit 5 – 5 weeks
Draw, compose and decompose shapes
Unit 4 – 2 weeks
Area, perimeter, position and direction
Unit 6 – 2 weeks
Sense of measure – capacity, volume, mass
Unit 14 – 2 weeks
Right angles
Unit 3 – 2 weeks
Preparing for fractions: the part–whole relationship
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.1
Adding and subtracting within one whole
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.4
Comparison of quantities and part–whole relationships
Unit 2 – 3 weeks
Unit fractions: identifying, representing and comparing
Spine 3: Fractions – Topic 3.2
Numbers to 1,000
Unit 2 – 10 weeks
Using a high quality textbook to support teaching for mastery
We visit the classroom of Hannah Gray, a primary teacher involved in trialling new Singapore-style textbooks, designed to support a mastery approach
Numbers 10 to 100
Unit 1 – 4 weeks
Multiplication with three factors and volume
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.20
Multiplicative contexts: area and perimeter 2
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.30
Comparison of quantities and measures
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.1
Decimal fractions
Unit 1 – 5 weeks
Calculating with decimal fractions
Unit 6 – 3 weeks
Statistics
Unit 8 – 1 week
Teacher collaboration supports mixed-attainment classes
A London school models one possible way to make the transition
Shape and Space
Understanding what happens when shapes move, or combine with other shapes, helps develop wider mathematical thinking
The Bar Model
A representation used to expose mathematical structure
Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths
A term-by-term framework to support planning and teaching
Teaching for mastery: isn’t it just 'good teaching'?
Emma Patman, a Year 4 teacher, explains how her teaching has been transformed by her exposure to teaching for mastery pedagogy