Post-16 Professional Development and Resources
Opportunities for developing teachers and maths departments and resources to support all post-16 maths teaching
To support teachers of post-16 maths, including Core Maths, A level Maths and A level Further Maths, the NCETM and Maths Hubs work in partnership with the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP).
For 2024/25, there are opportunities in three professional learning areas for teachers of Level 3 maths to participate in a project run over a school term or more by their local Maths Hub. Please note that the links below take you to the AMSP website.
In each project, teachers get together with colleagues from other schools or colleges several times over an extended period, in sessions led by a teacher or former teacher experienced in professional development and in the relevant area of maths. These projects are now recruiting, and you can sign up and find out more about live events by following the links above.
Find out more
To discuss which of these three opportunities is right for your maths department in 2024/25, you can contact your local Maths Hub. The Post-16 Lead there will know more about venues and dates in your area.
Find your hubThe projects above are co-funded by the AMSP and Maths Hubs. Separately, the AMSP run a comprehensive range of programme of activities for teachers and students in state-funded schools and colleges. Full details are on the AMSP website.
Cross Phase – Supporting Students to Achieve a L2 Qualification in Maths
In 2024/25, a project is running for teachers of GCSE Maths, and for those teaching GCSE Maths resit and/or Functional Skills Maths. Participants may be based in secondary schools, UTCs, FE colleges, Sixth Form colleges, schools with post-16 provision, or other post-16 settings. Learn more about this cross-phase project.
Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialists
Working together with Maths Hubs, the NCETM has designed a professional development opportunity to support for those who teach maths up to Level 2 to post-16 students, and for the departments where they work: Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialists. Participants undergo an initial training year to develop an understanding of teaching for mastery for post-16 GCSE and FSQ students, then support others to do the same in the second year and beyond.
Podcasts, features and blog posts
We have published a wide variety of articles designed to answer questions around, and provide support to those teaching, post-16 maths qualifications. If you would like to share your own reflections on teaching maths at post-16, please get in touch.
Core Maths
- Making an impact with Core Maths
- Core Maths five years on
- How can schools and colleges offer Core Maths?
- How to get students taking Core Maths
- Charlie's Angles - Getting maths back on track in Years 10 to 13
- Charlie's Angles - Two bits of good maths news
- Charlie’s Angles – All post-16 providers should consider offering Core Maths
- Charlie's Angles – The importance of Core Maths and the support available
- How and why one Yorkshire school is teaching Core Maths
- Podcast episode – Core Maths: not just more maths
A level
- Remote teaching: the digital revolution?
- Should more girls be taking A level Maths?
- Ten calculations A level students should do on a calculator
- Podcast episode – An audience with the exam boards
- Podcast episode – Entry requirement for A level Maths
- Charlie's Angles - Getting maths back on track in Years 10 to 13
- Charlie's Angles - Two bits of good maths news
- Charlie’s Angles – Reflection on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
GCSE Resit/FSQ
- Introducing the Trailblazers
- Charlie's Angles – If it’s Friday it must be GCSE resit
- Charlie’s Angles - GCSE resits: grasping the nettle
Useful resources, papers and documents
Please note that these links take you to external websites.
- AMSP resources for teaching Core Maths
- Ofsted - Coordinating mathematical success: the mathematics subject report - July 2023
- Prime Minister sets ambition of maths to 18 in speech - January 2023
- Maths to 18 expert advisory group
- The Royal Society's statement on the importance of Core Maths - January 2022
- Report of Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 mathematics - July 2017