Summer holiday reading 2019

Move on immediately if you’ve put away your work brain for the summer. You’ve certainly earned the right to do just that! But if you have the appetite for a bit of school or maths-related reading during the holiday, here are some suggestions from everything we’ve published during the 2018/19 school year.

• Thinking about getting your pupils involved in maths competitions next year? Plenty of primary and secondary suggestions.
• Think your secondary maths classes are too important to use ‘children’s playthings.’ This video might make you think again. And here’s the background to the video.
• A great story of how a primary head and a maths lead led the transformation of maths teaching. Just one of our podcasts featuring teachers working with Maths Hubs.
• The perfect combination, of secondary headteacher, head of maths and expert teacher, moving maths forward in a previously low-achieving school via teaching for mastery, in this video.
• This analysis of a couple of this year’s SATs questions might prompts some thoughts for the autumn term.
• Bar models to get variation into secondary school maths teaching. One teacher explains how she does it.
• This podcast, with two secondary school maths teachers, tell a story of how maths in Years 7 and 8 is changing, as part of the Maths Hubs programme. Or watch the same teachers tell the same story..
• Our most clicked-on feature about classroom practice last year, Teaching telling the time: a non-standard approach.
• Thinking about maths in Reception or Year 1 next year? Our materials to go alongside CBeebies' Numberblocks programmes might give you ideas, and be used in lessons.
• There’s still time for primary schools to join local, funded teaching for mastery CPD groups from September with Maths Hubs in most parts of England.
• Does your secondary school maths department want to get some free guidance on introducing teaching for mastery from September, with a Mastery Specialist from your local Maths Hub?