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Teaching telling the time: a non-standard approach
After two decades of teaching ‘telling the time’, Kristen Weiss discovers a way to help children better understand the complexities
Teaching through the pandemic 3 – Simon Ball
A teacher at a sixth form college explains how he teaches students in class and at home at the same time!
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
Maths education books – reviewed and distilled
Lisa Coe tells us what she gets from reading ‘edu-books’ and what the summaries on her blog can offer time-poor teachers
Statistics | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 4
Welcome to the NCETM in 2024/25
Whether you’re stepping into teaching for the first time or returning with years of experience, we’re here to support your journey with all the maths CPD you need this year and beyond
Measurement | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 1
Measurement | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 2
Statistics | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 5
Planning collaboratively and learning together as a department
How a secondary maths department includes everyone in the planning process and fosters shared learning
Number and Place Value | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 4
Measurement | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 3
Measurement | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 5
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
Ongoing professional development of maths teachers should be taken more seriously
NCETM Director calls for all maths teachers, and all primary teachers, to be given a protected amount of subject-specific professional development time
What mastery has done for our school
Jenny Laurie, deputy head and maths teacher at a central London secondary school, talks about being one of the very earliest to adopt a teaching for mastery approach in maths
Secondary Assessment Materials
Materials to support you and your colleagues in assessing students at KS3
Measurement | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 4
Measurement | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Measurement – Year 6
Ratio and Proportion and Rates of Change | KS3
National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion and Rates of Change – KS3
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
Number | KS3
National Curriculum resources for Number – Key Stage 3
Area and scaling
Unit 5 – 5 weeks
Converting units
Unit 9 - 2 weeks
Whole-school approach to learning times tables
How groups of primary schools have been introducing a twin-track approach to times-tables learning
Numberblocks – Series 3
Series 3, all episodes
7 times table and patterns
Unit 5 - 2 weeks
3, 6, 9 times tables
Unit 4 – 4 weeks
2, 4, 8 times tables
Unit 6 – 3 weeks
Numberblocks at home
Resources to accompany the CBeebies Numberblocks series, designed for parents to use at home with children
A practical way to improve lesson planning in secondary school maths teaching?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Questioning Marking?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Teaching the hardest topics in GCSE maths
Two teachers from South Yorkshire, who lead Work Groups, tell us why teachers should get involved with ‘Challenging Topics at GCSE’
Five ways to use our Planning to teach videos and resources
Explore ideas for lockdown learning, remote teaching and online CPD
Glenfall Community Primary School
An interview with Anthony Mitchell, headteacher of Glenfall Community Primary School
Multiplication and Division | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 3
Primary Round-up - November 2020
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
April’s Primary Round-up is now out!
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Debbie Morgan receives CBE
The NCETM’s Primary Director is included in Queen’s Birthday Honours
NCETM Newsletter - January 2021
Resources to support learning, teachers helping teachers, maths-teaching discussions, online conferences and more
NCETM Newsletter - March 2024
Last chance to apply for professional development leadership opportunities and Mastering Number for 2024/25, and more
Funded opportunities in teaching for mastery for secondary school maths departments
Two options for schools to strengthen maths teaching in KS3 over the next two years and beyond
Secondary Mastery Specialists – are you ready to return?
If you trained as a Mastery Specialist but haven’t led any Maths Hubs work for a while, why not get back in touch?
Chetwynd Primary Academy
An interview with Lorraine Tonks, Principal of Chetwynd Primary Academy
Measures
Comparing different aspects such as length, weight and volume, as a preliminary to using units to compare later
Spotlight on LLMEs – Primary SKTM
Hear from a Cohort Lead on the Primary SKTM
Numberblocks – Series 1
Series 1, all episodes
NCETM Newsletter: July 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Core Maths: not just more maths
An interview with a teacher who’s taught Core Maths since its launch in 2014
Embedding mastery in a primary school
Two teachers tell their stories, and explain how mastery is being introduced across a Maths Hub area
Our Primary Round-up for July is out!
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
We've just published February's Secondary Round-up
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Secondary teaching for mastery CPD opportunities now available
Fully funded professional development opportunities are available from September 2019
NCETM News and Round-ups - December 2020
Our final communication of the year amalgamates the Primary and Secondary Round-ups and our National Newsletter
NCETM Newsletter - May 2022
Over 30 fully-funded projects across all phases are on offer from Maths Hubs for 2022/23 - get involved!
NCETM Newsletter - March 2023
Recruiting now for maths professional development leadership opportunities in 2023/24. Apply by the end of March!
NCETM Newsletter - May 2023
Over 30 fully-funded projects across all phases are on offer from Maths Hubs for 2023/24 - get involved!
Primary and Secondary Round-ups - July 2023
Maths Hubs CPD for 2023/24, podcast discussions, Ofsted maths teaching report and more
Primary and Secondary Round-ups - July 2024
Maths Hubs CPD for 2024/25, podcast, Checkpoints, summer reading and more
Case studies supporting teaching for mastery
Mastery case studies: aspects of teaching for mastery under the spotlight
A video overview on teaching for mastery at primary
Debbie Morgan, NCETM Director for Primary, gives a presentation to teachers on teaching for mastery
Taking on the role of maths lead in a primary school
Ten tips for newcomers to the position
Spotlight on Work Group Leads - Developing A Level Pedagogy
A Post-16 Work Group Lead explains what's involved
Spotlight on Work Group Leads - Primary Mastery
Hear from a Year 6 teacher who leads local Teaching for Mastery Work Groups
Checkpoints
Diagnostic maths activities to help teachers develop their assessment of students' prior learning for KS3
Year 4 curriculum map
The whole of Year 4, split into units
Year 5 curriculum map
The whole of Year 5, split into units
Year 6 curriculum map
The whole of Year 6, split into units
Year 2 curriculum map
The whole of Year 2, split into units
Year 1 curriculum map
The whole of Year 1, split into units
Year 3 curriculum map
The whole of Year 3, split into units
Secondary heads on benefits of working with a Maths Hub
Our latest podcast with two London-based secondary heads
Wath CE Primary School
An interview with headteacher Paul Beevor, Wath CE Primary School, near Rotherham
Coleridge Primary School
An interview with Ben Strange and Louise Foulkes, deputy and assistant heads of Coleridge Primary School
Sir Robert Woodard Academy
An interview with Kieran Scanlon and Natasha Corrigan, senior leaders from Sir Robert Woodard Academy, Lancing, Sussex
The Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery
Underpinning principles, lesson design, and how mastery works in the classroom
Five activities that make maths department meetings worthwhile
What secondary teachers said they love about the regular meetings with colleagues in their department
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
Shanghai Surprise!
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Nine tips for new secondary heads of maths
How to lead a happy and successful department
Summer holiday reading 2019
A round-up of our recent features, which might stimulate your thinking for September
A grey area: the importance of colour in representations
An article by Emma Hill, a maths subject leader and Year 3 / 4 teacher
Spotlight on LLMEs – Developing Core Maths Pedagogy
Hear from a maths teacher about the professional development she leads for her local Maths Hub
A Year 6 lesson on line graphs
A lesson from 2015/16 led by James Berry, subject leader and deputy head at Chesterton Primary School in Wandsworth
Number and Place Value | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 1
Two London heads on engaging with teaching for mastery
Two secondary headteachers describe how they make engaging in professional development activities a matter of policy
Teaching through the pandemic 5 – Kate Jackson
A Year 4 teacher and Mastery Specialist explains how she teaches maths lessons outside and encourages other teachers to have a go
Lessons from GCSE maths exams in summer 2022
The three main exam boards in England give feedback on where students did well, and not so well, in the first real exams since before the pandemic
Recruitment open for primary teachers to take mastery forward
The NCETM’s Primary Mastery Specialist programme is now accepting applications for 2019/20
Primary Round-up - June 2020
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up May 2021
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up - October 2023
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up - September 2024
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Mastery Magnified
Insight into how teaching for mastery is working in schools
Sheldon School
An interview with Neil Spurdell and Nicola Scott, senior leaders from Sheldon School in Chippenham, Wiltshire
Two east London heads
Heads of two neighbouring east London secondary schools explain how their schools have benefited from engagement with their local Maths Hub
Queen Katharine Academy
The headteacher and second in maths at a Peterborough secondary school explain how introducing teaching for mastery has produced 'priceless' benefits
Falinge Park High School
An interview with Paula O'Reilly, Sarah-Jane York and Sylwia Glazewska, Falinge Park High School
Multiplicative Reasoning
A model for professional development, giving teachers the tools and resources to develop multiplicative reasoning skills in KS3 students
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
Resources and features from the NCETM in 2020/21
What you might have missed and what’s coming up…
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
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
‘Exploding Checkpoints’ – co-planning a KS3 curriculum
Discover how the maths department at one Cornwall school went back to the drawing board to develop a new KS3 curriculum
Podcasts get people talking about maths
How maths education is talked about away from the NCETM
The Five Big Ideas – Coherence
Why is Coherence one of the Five Big Ideas in teaching for mastery? And what does it mean for primary maths teachers?
Position and direction
Unit 12 – 1 week
How variation has changed my teaching
Article by Jayne Webster, who teaches maths at Denbigh School in Milton Keynes
NCETM Newsletter - January 2020
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Why we employed a primary teacher for maths in our secondary school
How one school employed a primary teacher to help introduce mastery
Ideas for collaboration in secondary maths teaching
Work with your colleagues to plan lessons and develop your own knowledge and pedagogy
Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths
A term-by-term framework to support planning and teaching
NCETM Newsletter - May 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
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
Algebra | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Algebra – Key Stage 3
Secondary Mastery Specialist Programme
Become a Mastery Specialist in the secondary phase
Remote teaching returns 2 – Steph Elliot
A Year 6 teacher from Newcastle gives us a window on her primary school’s ‘blended’ approach to providing remote learning
Maths Podcasts: CPD direct to your ears
Podcast listening is on the up and can play a role in maths CPD
Teaching maths in the pandemic
How our podcast guests have been adapting their teaching to get round Covid restrictions
Teaching maths in a real-life context
Teachers discuss the joys, the challenges and good resources
The Five Big Ideas – Variation
Variation can be used to support pupils to develop a deep understanding of the maths they are learning
Mastery Myth-busting
We dispel some of the common myths about teaching for mastery
Make sense of the Curriculum Prioritisation materials
Ever wondered where to begin with the Primary CP materials? This step-by-step guide will take you from website download to classroom activity
Mindset: why is it so important in teaching for mastery?
Liam Colclough, a headteacher in Sheffield, is convinced that to introduce teaching for mastery effectively, a shift in mindset is required
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
Raising the status of professional development
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
Professional Development – the key to making teaching ‘a career worth having’
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Position and direction
Unit 10 – 1 week
Eugenia Cheng rethinks gender around maths
‘Is there a relationship between maths, gender and learning? How might it be characterised?’ Dr Eugenia Cheng shares her ideas.
Professional development opportunities for leaders of maths education available now
Teachers who want to achieve or enhance maths leadership accreditations can now apply for two separate professional development programmes
Recruitment now open for Primary Mastery Specialists
The NCETM’s Primary Mastery Specialist Programme is now accepting applications for 2020/21
NCETM Newsletter - Easter 2020
Coronavirus: End of term message
Maths Hubs professional development opportunities for 2019/20 now available
The full range of CPD opportunities available through Maths Hubs has been published
Primary teaching for mastery report
Five thousand schools engaging
Maths Hubs opportunities for 2020/21 now available
New projects offer something for your own professional development or to develop maths teaching across your department or school
Secondary maths HoDs – new leadership CPD opportunity
A new Maths Hubs project has been designed specifically for secondary HoDs
New DfE guidance on teaching Key Stage 3 maths
The knowledge and understanding most important for the first three years of secondary school, broken down into a coherent sequence
Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2022/23 now available
Over 30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development options
Mastery Specialists in GCSE Resit and Functional Skills
The NCETM plans a new programme to train specialists in teaching maths up to Level 2 to post-16 students
Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2023/24 now available
Over 30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development
Ofsted report into maths teaching published
Ofsted has published a report into how maths is taught, along with its recommendations about the subject
The NCETM Maths Podcast – have you listened yet?
Check out our podcast, with nearly 80 episodes discussing maths teaching in all phases, featuring a wide range of guests
Maths Hubs CPD for 2024/25 now available
Over 30 projects offer professional development for schools and teachers
Intensive Support in Mathematics
Bespoke support for leaders to develop their understanding of effectively implementing change
School leader interviews
Extended interviews with school leaders who have introduced teaching for mastery
Outstanding schools, Ofsted and mastery
Find out how three schools deliver maths through teaching for mastery, and why Ofsted liked what they saw
If it’s Friday, it must be GCSE re-sit
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Teaching for mastery at secondary: is it compatible with putting students in sets?
A visit to two lessons at Tomlinscote School in Frimley, Surrey
How post-16 Mastery Specialists are leading system change
Based on the underpinning principles of teaching for mastery, the Trailblazers explore ways to develop provision in FE mathematics teaching
How to put the Ofsted maths report into practice
Key recommendations from the Ofsted report and suggestions for implementing them in your school
Meeting the needs of all without ability setting
Removing setting from maths teaching in a three-form entry primary school
Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths
What maths to teach for the rest of 2020/21
Teacher collaboration supports mixed-attainment classes
A London school models one possible way to make the transition
How maths textbooks are making a comeback
Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery
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
NCETM Newsletter - April 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Number and Place Value | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 5
The teaching units
The Multiplicative Reasoning teaching units
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
Planning and sequencing for curriculum prioritisation
A maths lead explains how our resource has given her teachers an easy route into the mastery materials as well as excellent pedagogical development
Managing maths in mixed-age classes
We talk to two teachers with years of experience teaching mixed-age classes, who are running Work Groups in their local hubs
Using number lines in Key Stage 2
We explore how number lines can be used at KS2 to support children to develop a greater understanding of the linear number system and prepare them for secondary maths
Statistics | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 3
Online support for parents and teachers during school closures
Find out about online support for parents and teachers being offered by the NCETM during school closures
Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2021/22 now available
30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development options
Mastering Number at Reception and KS1
Supporting pupils to develop good number sense
Post-16 GCSE and FSQ Mastery Specialists
Become a Mastery Specialist in Further Education
Times tables: 11 and 12
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.11
How a mastery approach is helping EAL pupils
Embracing teaching for mastery has enabled EAL pupils to engage fully in maths lessons, says headteacher
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
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
Composition
Understanding that one number can be made up from (composed from) two or more smaller numbers
Maths competitions – use them to motivate all students, not just the ‘brightest’
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
GCSE revision ideas for the final few lessons
Seven suggested resources and activities to help you prepare your students for exams
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
New funding for Core Maths
Why this is so important and how you can ensure your school or college can take advantage of it
Spotlight on LLMEs – Research and Innovation Work Groups (RIWGs)
Hear from the co-leads of the RIWG for Oracy
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’
Times tables: 7 and patterns within/across times tables
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.9
Developing a comprehensive maths curriculum
Developing a school curriculum for mathematics, scheme of work and calculation policy
Maths CPD chat
#mathscpdchat, previously managed by the NCETM
How can teaching for mastery work in a mixed age class?
A group of schools in Northamptonshire have been addressing this issue, with encouraging results
The non-specialist in the secondary maths department
A Maths Hubs programme that helps ‘train-up’ teachers whose first subject isn’t maths
A new school year: support for secondary maths teachers new and old
Resources available on the NCETM website and CPD opportunities through Maths Hubs – all free for secondary maths departments
How can schools and colleges offer Core Maths?
How a variety of colleges and schools are managing the logistics of offering Core Maths
Primary maths teaching in Shanghai: an exchange teacher’s view
A Mastery Specialist gives her impressions of maths teaching in a primary school in Shanghai
NCETM Newsletter - February 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
About the NCETM
How we support anyone who teaches maths
School sees better results through teaching for mastery
Embracing teaching for mastery in maths has seen pupils’ love for the subject contribute to some exceptional end of year outcomes for all year groups
Maths associations and why it’s good to be a member
Why you should join a maths education professional association
Money
Unit 9 – 1 week
United Learning: a model for trusts working with Maths Hubs
How one trust has paved the way for its schools to benefit from the Maths Hubs Programme
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
Geometry - position and direction | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - position and direction – Year 2
A maths book isn't just for Christmas
Six maths books out in 2019 that might help you enhance your teaching
Mixed age planning and teaching for mastery
A Work Group looks at ways to manage maths curriculum objectives with two or more year groups in one class
Five ways to use number lines in secondary maths
Practical tips from a secondary maths teacher
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
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
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
Teaching pie charts
How to help students do the calculations needed to construct a very familiar representation
Cardinality and number sense
What is cardinality? Why is it important? And how can we help children develop an understanding?
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
Statistics
Unit 8 – 1 week
Addition and Subtraction | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 5
Fractions | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 1
Making an impact with Core Maths
We find out why one of the country’s largest post-16 colleges has introduced Core Maths
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
The Bar Model
A representation used to expose mathematical structure
Times tables: 2, 4 and 8, and the relationship between them
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.7
GCSE re-sits: grasping the nettle
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
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
Spotlight on LLMEs – Secondary Non-specialist SKTM
Hear from a maths teacher and podcaster who leads a range of projects
Looking back on ten years of Maths Hubs
Charlie Stripp reflects on ten years of the Maths Hubs Programme
Times tables: groups of 2 and commutativity (part 1)
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.3
Mastery brings ‘priceless’ benefits to secondary school
A secondary head explains how adopting a mastery approach has transformed teaching and learning in maths
How are schools determining maths grades this year?
We ask around a few schools and MATs
Times tables: 3, 6 and 9, and the relationship between them
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.8
Primary Archive
An archive of all Primary Round-ups and Magazines
Times tables: groups of 10 and of 5, and factors of 0 and 1
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.4
NCETM Newsletter - June 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Primary Teaching for Mastery – Development
Part of the continuing programme to develop teaching for mastery in maths in primary schools
Myth busting
NCETM Myth busting
Statistics | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 2
Number and Place Value | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 2
Twitter discussions about teaching maths in all phases
Join our Tuesday evening chats or read summaries on our website
Reflections on the Ofsted maths subject report
Charlie Stripp shares his thoughts on ‘Coordinating mathematical success’
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
England-China teacher exchange 2016/17: Seeing Shanghai teaching at first hand
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 social media is changing my CPD
A primary school maths lead talks about what social media offers to inspire, support and challenge his ways of teaching maths
Why mastery makes us optimistic about our next GCSE results
Article by Jenny Laurie, Deputy Head at The St Marylebone CE School, London
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
PISA results for mathematics – how can they help us?
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.
Two bits of good maths news
Year 11s getting better than their predecessors while A level and Core Maths remains popular
What maths shall we do with Year 6 this term?
We’ve gathered suggestions about preparing pupils for transition in this disrupted year
Learning fractions shouldn’t be difficult
How a well-sequenced curriculum can unlock understanding for all children
Professional development for primary teaching assistants
Ensuring impact, effectiveness and pupil progress
Maths to age 18, why everyone should welcome it, and what we can do to help make it happen
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Reflections on the 2023 maths examination results
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Prepare your Year 6 pupils for SATs
Ensure Year 6 pupils have the understanding they need to progress by using our handpicked resources
Addition and Subtraction | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 1
Pattern
Looking for and finding patterns helps children notice and understand mathematical relationships
'They can see it straight away': the impact of Mastering Number
Successful implementation of Mastering Number has brought huge benefits to pupils in a mixed-age class
Fractions | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 3
Number and Place Value | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 3
Fractions | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 2
Maths education: the present, the future, and how to get there
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Addition and Subtraction | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 4
Geometry - position and direction | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - position and direction – Year 1
Number and Place Value | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Number and Place Value – Year 6
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 5
Multiplication and Division | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 4
Maths, Mindsets and Mastery
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Addition and Subtraction | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 3
Why Mastery Readiness isn't just 'mastery-lite'!
The Mastery Readiness Programme enables schools to put in place structures, systems and positive mathematical culture so they can successfully engage in teaching for mastery
Mastery in mathematics: What it is and why we should be doing it
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!
Research and innovation in the Maths Hubs Network
How smaller CPD projects refine, innovate and improve the Maths Hubs Programme and give teachers an opportunity to pursue special interests
Four ways to create better mathematical talk in your classroom
And resources you might like to explore
Using the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials
A maths lead tells his school's story
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
Shape and Space
Understanding what happens when shapes move, or combine with other shapes, helps develop wider mathematical thinking
Secondary Archive
An archive of all Secondary Round-ups and Magazines
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 2
Probability and Statistics | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Probability and Statistics – Key Stage 3
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.
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
Reflections on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Ratio and Proportion | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Ratio and Proportion – Year 6
Fractions | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 6
Multiplication and Division | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 5
Geometry and Measures | Key Stage 3
National Curriculum resources for Geometry and Measures – Key Stage 3
Addition and Subtraction | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 6
Gap tasks: maximising the impact of Work Groups
We visit Gorse Hill Primary School Work Group in Swindon, and find out how gap tasks are driving powerful changes in pedagogy
Addition and Subtraction | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Addition and Subtraction – Year 2
A Year 3 lesson on multiplication
A set of video clips from 2014/15 centred on one lesson, focusing on the 6-times-table
Introducing multiplicative thinking
Building in small steps to ensure all children develop understanding early on in primary school
Useful tips for tackling multiplicative thinking
Embedding multiplicative thinking across the primary maths curriculum
Introduction to multiplication
Unit 5 – 7 weeks
NCETM Newsletter - June 2022
Planning for 2022/23, and some ideas for the rest of this year
Checkpoints – new diagnostic classroom activities for Year 7
A year’s worth of resources and professional development are being produced to support secondary maths teachers
Commutativity (part 2), doubling and halving
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.5
Understanding and manipulating multiplicative relationships
Unit 6 – 5 weeks
Calculation: multiplying and dividing by 10 or 100
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.13
Our Primary Round-up for March is out!
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
The PE teacher in the maths department
How Maths Hubs are helping secondary school maths departments 'train up' non-specialists to teach maths
CPD opportunity available for non-specialists teaching secondary maths
A Maths Hubs programme helps teachers with subject knowledge and pedagogy
Structures: using measures and comparison to understand scaling
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.17
Statistics | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Statistics – Year 6
Core Maths five years on
What does the course offer post-16 students that don’t do Maths A level, and how can schools/colleges offer it?
Remote teaching returns 1 – Kyle Evans and Kathryn Darwin
Brand new to live online teaching, or almost a year in? Two teachers from both ends of the spectrum discuss what works
Multiplication and Division | Year 2
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 2
Secondary Round-up - May 2020
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Secondary Round-up November 2020
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up March 2021
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Year 2 Shanghai showcase lesson
Ms Lynn, part of the the England–China exchange, leads a Year 2 lesson at Tubbenden Primary School
Connecting multiplication and division, and the distributive law
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.10
What is unitising, and why is it important?
This article follows the concept of unitising through Years 1-6, also demonstrating effective curriculum sequencing
Primary Round-up - April 2020
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Multiplication and Division Primary Mastery PD Materials now available
The first batch of Spine 2: Multiplication and Division mastery professional development materials is now available
Composition and calculation: tenths
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.23
DfE guidance on teaching maths at KS3
What the guidance consists of and how it aligns with other NCETM resources
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
Composition and calculation: hundredths and thousandths
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.24
Three calculations to encourage and support fluency
Prompts for teachers to draw out mathematical thinking in KS2 or KS3 pupils
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
Composition and calculation: numbers up to 10,000,000
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.30
Support, ideas and information for teaching Core Maths
A conversation with the AMSP's Core Maths coordinator, and an enthusiastic Core Maths teacher
What is a Work Group?
Find out what Work Groups are and how they work
One school’s success with Core Maths
Seven Core Maths classes prove the value of the qualification for students
Algebra | Year 6
National Curriculum resources for Algebra – Year 6
Completing the square
What is the square that is being completed? Algebra tiles can be moved around to represent this manipulation - particularly with students familiar with area models of multiplication from KS3.
Thank-you to all teachers of maths
Despite unprecedented challenges, teachers have kept maths education on track
Multiplication and Division | Year 1
National Curriculum resources for Multiplication and Division – Year 1
NCETM Newsletter - September 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Six images to help plan primary maths lessons
Six images that might prompt deeper thought when designing maths lessons from Year 1 to Year 6
Teaching maths online in the pandemic
Sources of support and accounts of how teachers are overcoming the hurdles
Understanding students’ mathematical wrong turns
What two secondary teachers learnt from carefully listening to students’ responses to mathematical prompts
Representations in our primary video lessons
Mathematical structure, manipulatives and myth-busting
Post-16 Professional Development and Resources
Opportunities for developing teachers and maths departments and resources to support all post-16 maths teaching
Fractions | Year 5
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 5
Supporting Research, Evidence and Argument
Key texts for the key components of teaching for mastery
Geometry - properties of shapes | Year 3
National Curriculum resources for Geometry - properties of shapes – Year 3
The Five Big Ideas - Representation and Structure
Discover how to use representation and structure – one of the Five Big Ideas in teaching for mastery – to improve maths teaching
Ten years of the Maths Hubs Programme
A celebration of the achievements made across ten years by England’s 40 Maths Hubs, supporting teachers and schools to improve maths teaching and learning
Fractions | Year 4
National Curriculum resources for Fractions – Year 4
Teaching telling the time: a non-standard approach
After two decades of teaching ‘telling the time’, Kristen Weiss discovers a way to help children better understand the complexities
Teaching through the pandemic 3 – Simon Ball
A teacher at a sixth form college explains how he teaches students in class and at home at the same time!
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
Maths education books – reviewed and distilled
Lisa Coe tells us what she gets from reading ‘edu-books’ and what the summaries on her blog can offer time-poor teachers
Welcome to the NCETM in 2024/25
Whether you’re stepping into teaching for the first time or returning with years of experience, we’re here to support your journey with all the maths CPD you need this year and beyond
Planning collaboratively and learning together as a department
How a secondary maths department includes everyone in the planning process and fosters shared learning
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
Ongoing professional development of maths teachers should be taken more seriously
NCETM Director calls for all maths teachers, and all primary teachers, to be given a protected amount of subject-specific professional development time
What mastery has done for our school
Jenny Laurie, deputy head and maths teacher at a central London secondary school, talks about being one of the very earliest to adopt a teaching for mastery approach in maths
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
Whole-school approach to learning times tables
How groups of primary schools have been introducing a twin-track approach to times-tables learning
A practical way to improve lesson planning in secondary school maths teaching?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Questioning Marking?
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Teaching the hardest topics in GCSE maths
Two teachers from South Yorkshire, who lead Work Groups, tell us why teachers should get involved with ‘Challenging Topics at GCSE’
Five ways to use our Planning to teach videos and resources
Explore ideas for lockdown learning, remote teaching and online CPD
Primary Round-up - November 2020
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
April’s Primary Round-up is now out!
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Debbie Morgan receives CBE
The NCETM’s Primary Director is included in Queen’s Birthday Honours
NCETM Newsletter - January 2021
Resources to support learning, teachers helping teachers, maths-teaching discussions, online conferences and more
NCETM Newsletter - March 2024
Last chance to apply for professional development leadership opportunities and Mastering Number for 2024/25, and more
Funded opportunities in teaching for mastery for secondary school maths departments
Two options for schools to strengthen maths teaching in KS3 over the next two years and beyond
Secondary Mastery Specialists – are you ready to return?
If you trained as a Mastery Specialist but haven’t led any Maths Hubs work for a while, why not get back in touch?
Spotlight on LLMEs – Primary SKTM
Hear from a Cohort Lead on the Primary SKTM
NCETM Newsletter: July 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Core Maths: not just more maths
An interview with a teacher who’s taught Core Maths since its launch in 2014
Embedding mastery in a primary school
Two teachers tell their stories, and explain how mastery is being introduced across a Maths Hub area
Our Primary Round-up for July is out!
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
We've just published February's Secondary Round-up
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Secondary teaching for mastery CPD opportunities now available
Fully funded professional development opportunities are available from September 2019
NCETM News and Round-ups - December 2020
Our final communication of the year amalgamates the Primary and Secondary Round-ups and our National Newsletter
NCETM Newsletter - May 2022
Over 30 fully-funded projects across all phases are on offer from Maths Hubs for 2022/23 - get involved!
NCETM Newsletter - March 2023
Recruiting now for maths professional development leadership opportunities in 2023/24. Apply by the end of March!
NCETM Newsletter - May 2023
Over 30 fully-funded projects across all phases are on offer from Maths Hubs for 2023/24 - get involved!
Primary and Secondary Round-ups - July 2023
Maths Hubs CPD for 2023/24, podcast discussions, Ofsted maths teaching report and more
Primary and Secondary Round-ups - July 2024
Maths Hubs CPD for 2024/25, podcast, Checkpoints, summer reading and more
Taking on the role of maths lead in a primary school
Ten tips for newcomers to the position
Spotlight on Work Group Leads - Developing A Level Pedagogy
A Post-16 Work Group Lead explains what's involved
Spotlight on Work Group Leads - Primary Mastery
Hear from a Year 6 teacher who leads local Teaching for Mastery Work Groups
Secondary heads on benefits of working with a Maths Hub
Our latest podcast with two London-based secondary heads
Five activities that make maths department meetings worthwhile
What secondary teachers said they love about the regular meetings with colleagues in their department
Shanghai Surprise!
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Nine tips for new secondary heads of maths
How to lead a happy and successful department
Summer holiday reading 2019
A round-up of our recent features, which might stimulate your thinking for September
A grey area: the importance of colour in representations
An article by Emma Hill, a maths subject leader and Year 3 / 4 teacher
Spotlight on LLMEs – Developing Core Maths Pedagogy
Hear from a maths teacher about the professional development she leads for her local Maths Hub
Two London heads on engaging with teaching for mastery
Two secondary headteachers describe how they make engaging in professional development activities a matter of policy
Teaching through the pandemic 5 – Kate Jackson
A Year 4 teacher and Mastery Specialist explains how she teaches maths lessons outside and encourages other teachers to have a go
Lessons from GCSE maths exams in summer 2022
The three main exam boards in England give feedback on where students did well, and not so well, in the first real exams since before the pandemic
Recruitment open for primary teachers to take mastery forward
The NCETM’s Primary Mastery Specialist programme is now accepting applications for 2019/20
Primary Round-up - June 2020
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up May 2021
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up - October 2023
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up - September 2024
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
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
Resources and features from the NCETM in 2020/21
What you might have missed and what’s coming up…
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
‘Exploding Checkpoints’ – co-planning a KS3 curriculum
Discover how the maths department at one Cornwall school went back to the drawing board to develop a new KS3 curriculum
Podcasts get people talking about maths
How maths education is talked about away from the NCETM
The Five Big Ideas – Coherence
Why is Coherence one of the Five Big Ideas in teaching for mastery? And what does it mean for primary maths teachers?
How variation has changed my teaching
Article by Jayne Webster, who teaches maths at Denbigh School in Milton Keynes
NCETM Newsletter - January 2020
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Why we employed a primary teacher for maths in our secondary school
How one school employed a primary teacher to help introduce mastery
Ideas for collaboration in secondary maths teaching
Work with your colleagues to plan lessons and develop your own knowledge and pedagogy
NCETM Newsletter - May 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
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
Remote teaching returns 2 – Steph Elliot
A Year 6 teacher from Newcastle gives us a window on her primary school’s ‘blended’ approach to providing remote learning
Maths Podcasts: CPD direct to your ears
Podcast listening is on the up and can play a role in maths CPD
Teaching maths in the pandemic
How our podcast guests have been adapting their teaching to get round Covid restrictions
Teaching maths in a real-life context
Teachers discuss the joys, the challenges and good resources
The Five Big Ideas – Variation
Variation can be used to support pupils to develop a deep understanding of the maths they are learning
Mastery Myth-busting
We dispel some of the common myths about teaching for mastery
Make sense of the Curriculum Prioritisation materials
Ever wondered where to begin with the Primary CP materials? This step-by-step guide will take you from website download to classroom activity
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
Raising the status of professional development
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
Professional Development – the key to making teaching ‘a career worth having’
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Eugenia Cheng rethinks gender around maths
‘Is there a relationship between maths, gender and learning? How might it be characterised?’ Dr Eugenia Cheng shares her ideas.
Professional development opportunities for leaders of maths education available now
Teachers who want to achieve or enhance maths leadership accreditations can now apply for two separate professional development programmes
Recruitment now open for Primary Mastery Specialists
The NCETM’s Primary Mastery Specialist Programme is now accepting applications for 2020/21
NCETM Newsletter - Easter 2020
Coronavirus: End of term message
Maths Hubs professional development opportunities for 2019/20 now available
The full range of CPD opportunities available through Maths Hubs has been published
Primary teaching for mastery report
Five thousand schools engaging
Maths Hubs opportunities for 2020/21 now available
New projects offer something for your own professional development or to develop maths teaching across your department or school
Secondary maths HoDs – new leadership CPD opportunity
A new Maths Hubs project has been designed specifically for secondary HoDs
New DfE guidance on teaching Key Stage 3 maths
The knowledge and understanding most important for the first three years of secondary school, broken down into a coherent sequence
Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2022/23 now available
Over 30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development options
Mastery Specialists in GCSE Resit and Functional Skills
The NCETM plans a new programme to train specialists in teaching maths up to Level 2 to post-16 students
Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2023/24 now available
Over 30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development
Ofsted report into maths teaching published
Ofsted has published a report into how maths is taught, along with its recommendations about the subject
The NCETM Maths Podcast – have you listened yet?
Check out our podcast, with nearly 80 episodes discussing maths teaching in all phases, featuring a wide range of guests
Maths Hubs CPD for 2024/25 now available
Over 30 projects offer professional development for schools and teachers
Outstanding schools, Ofsted and mastery
Find out how three schools deliver maths through teaching for mastery, and why Ofsted liked what they saw
If it’s Friday, it must be GCSE re-sit
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
How post-16 Mastery Specialists are leading system change
Based on the underpinning principles of teaching for mastery, the Trailblazers explore ways to develop provision in FE mathematics teaching
How to put the Ofsted maths report into practice
Key recommendations from the Ofsted report and suggestions for implementing them in your school
How maths textbooks are making a comeback
Two primary schools explain how they use textbook schemes to support teaching for mastery
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
NCETM Newsletter - April 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
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
Planning and sequencing for curriculum prioritisation
A maths lead explains how our resource has given her teachers an easy route into the mastery materials as well as excellent pedagogical development
Managing maths in mixed-age classes
We talk to two teachers with years of experience teaching mixed-age classes, who are running Work Groups in their local hubs
Using number lines in Key Stage 2
We explore how number lines can be used at KS2 to support children to develop a greater understanding of the linear number system and prepare them for secondary maths
Online support for parents and teachers during school closures
Find out about online support for parents and teachers being offered by the NCETM during school closures
Maths Hubs CPD opportunities for 2021/22 now available
30 projects offer schools and teachers a variety of professional development options
How a mastery approach is helping EAL pupils
Embracing teaching for mastery has enabled EAL pupils to engage fully in maths lessons, says headteacher
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
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
Maths competitions – use them to motivate all students, not just the ‘brightest’
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
GCSE revision ideas for the final few lessons
Seven suggested resources and activities to help you prepare your students for exams
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
New funding for Core Maths
Why this is so important and how you can ensure your school or college can take advantage of it
Spotlight on LLMEs – Research and Innovation Work Groups (RIWGs)
Hear from the co-leads of the RIWG for Oracy
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’
The non-specialist in the secondary maths department
A Maths Hubs programme that helps ‘train-up’ teachers whose first subject isn’t maths
A new school year: support for secondary maths teachers new and old
Resources available on the NCETM website and CPD opportunities through Maths Hubs – all free for secondary maths departments
How can schools and colleges offer Core Maths?
How a variety of colleges and schools are managing the logistics of offering Core Maths
Primary maths teaching in Shanghai: an exchange teacher’s view
A Mastery Specialist gives her impressions of maths teaching in a primary school in Shanghai
NCETM Newsletter - February 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Maths associations and why it’s good to be a member
Why you should join a maths education professional association
United Learning: a model for trusts working with Maths Hubs
How one trust has paved the way for its schools to benefit from the Maths Hubs Programme
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
A maths book isn't just for Christmas
Six maths books out in 2019 that might help you enhance your teaching
Mixed age planning and teaching for mastery
A Work Group looks at ways to manage maths curriculum objectives with two or more year groups in one class
Five ways to use number lines in secondary maths
Practical tips from a secondary maths teacher
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
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
Teaching pie charts
How to help students do the calculations needed to construct a very familiar representation
Cardinality and number sense
What is cardinality? Why is it important? And how can we help children develop an understanding?
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
Making an impact with Core Maths
We find out why one of the country’s largest post-16 colleges has introduced Core Maths
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
GCSE re-sits: grasping the nettle
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
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
Spotlight on LLMEs – Secondary Non-specialist SKTM
Hear from a maths teacher and podcaster who leads a range of projects
Looking back on ten years of Maths Hubs
Charlie Stripp reflects on ten years of the Maths Hubs Programme
Mastery brings ‘priceless’ benefits to secondary school
A secondary head explains how adopting a mastery approach has transformed teaching and learning in maths
How are schools determining maths grades this year?
We ask around a few schools and MATs
NCETM Newsletter - June 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Twitter discussions about teaching maths in all phases
Join our Tuesday evening chats or read summaries on our website
Reflections on the Ofsted maths subject report
Charlie Stripp shares his thoughts on ‘Coordinating mathematical success’
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
England-China teacher exchange 2016/17: Seeing Shanghai teaching at first hand
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 social media is changing my CPD
A primary school maths lead talks about what social media offers to inspire, support and challenge his ways of teaching maths
Why mastery makes us optimistic about our next GCSE results
Article by Jenny Laurie, Deputy Head at The St Marylebone CE School, London
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
PISA results for mathematics – how can they help us?
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.
Two bits of good maths news
Year 11s getting better than their predecessors while A level and Core Maths remains popular
What maths shall we do with Year 6 this term?
We’ve gathered suggestions about preparing pupils for transition in this disrupted year
Learning fractions shouldn’t be difficult
How a well-sequenced curriculum can unlock understanding for all children
Professional development for primary teaching assistants
Ensuring impact, effectiveness and pupil progress
Maths to age 18, why everyone should welcome it, and what we can do to help make it happen
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Reflections on the 2023 maths examination results
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Prepare your Year 6 pupils for SATs
Ensure Year 6 pupils have the understanding they need to progress by using our handpicked resources
'They can see it straight away': the impact of Mastering Number
Successful implementation of Mastering Number has brought huge benefits to pupils in a mixed-age class
Maths education: the present, the future, and how to get there
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Maths, Mindsets and Mastery
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
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!
Research and innovation in the Maths Hubs Network
How smaller CPD projects refine, innovate and improve the Maths Hubs Programme and give teachers an opportunity to pursue special interests
Four ways to create better mathematical talk in your classroom
And resources you might like to explore
Using the NCETM Curriculum Prioritisation materials
A maths lead tells his school's story
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
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.
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
Reflections on the uptake of AS/A level Maths, AS/A level Further Maths and Core Maths
An article from our Director, Charlie Stripp
Introducing multiplicative thinking
Building in small steps to ensure all children develop understanding early on in primary school
Useful tips for tackling multiplicative thinking
Embedding multiplicative thinking across the primary maths curriculum
NCETM Newsletter - June 2022
Planning for 2022/23, and some ideas for the rest of this year
Checkpoints – new diagnostic classroom activities for Year 7
A year’s worth of resources and professional development are being produced to support secondary maths teachers
Our Primary Round-up for March is out!
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
The PE teacher in the maths department
How Maths Hubs are helping secondary school maths departments 'train up' non-specialists to teach maths
CPD opportunity available for non-specialists teaching secondary maths
A Maths Hubs programme helps teachers with subject knowledge and pedagogy
Core Maths five years on
What does the course offer post-16 students that don’t do Maths A level, and how can schools/colleges offer it?
Remote teaching returns 1 – Kyle Evans and Kathryn Darwin
Brand new to live online teaching, or almost a year in? Two teachers from both ends of the spectrum discuss what works
Secondary Round-up - May 2020
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Secondary Round-up November 2020
Our latest Secondary Round-up is now available
Primary Round-up March 2021
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
What is unitising, and why is it important?
This article follows the concept of unitising through Years 1-6, also demonstrating effective curriculum sequencing
Primary Round-up - April 2020
Our latest Primary Round-up is now available
Multiplication and Division Primary Mastery PD Materials now available
The first batch of Spine 2: Multiplication and Division mastery professional development materials is now available
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
Three calculations to encourage and support fluency
Prompts for teachers to draw out mathematical thinking in KS2 or KS3 pupils
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
Support, ideas and information for teaching Core Maths
A conversation with the AMSP's Core Maths coordinator, and an enthusiastic Core Maths teacher
One school’s success with Core Maths
Seven Core Maths classes prove the value of the qualification for students
Completing the square
What is the square that is being completed? Algebra tiles can be moved around to represent this manipulation - particularly with students familiar with area models of multiplication from KS3.
Thank-you to all teachers of maths
Despite unprecedented challenges, teachers have kept maths education on track
NCETM Newsletter - September 2019
Our latest NCETM newsletter is now available
Six images to help plan primary maths lessons
Six images that might prompt deeper thought when designing maths lessons from Year 1 to Year 6
Teaching maths online in the pandemic
Sources of support and accounts of how teachers are overcoming the hurdles
Understanding students’ mathematical wrong turns
What two secondary teachers learnt from carefully listening to students’ responses to mathematical prompts
Representations in our primary video lessons
Mathematical structure, manipulatives and myth-busting
The Five Big Ideas - Representation and Structure
Discover how to use representation and structure – one of the Five Big Ideas in teaching for mastery – to improve maths teaching
Ten years of the Maths Hubs Programme
A celebration of the achievements made across ten years by England’s 40 Maths Hubs, supporting teachers and schools to improve maths teaching and learning
Time
Unit 11 – 1 week
Time
Unit 11 – 1 week
Time
Unit 11 – 1 week
Time
Unit 11 – 2 weeks
Secondary Assessment Materials
Materials to support you and your colleagues in assessing students at KS3
Area and scaling
Unit 5 – 5 weeks
Converting units
Unit 9 - 2 weeks
Numberblocks – Series 3
Series 3, all episodes
7 times table and patterns
Unit 5 - 2 weeks
3, 6, 9 times tables
Unit 4 – 4 weeks
2, 4, 8 times tables
Unit 6 – 3 weeks
Numberblocks at home
Resources to accompany the CBeebies Numberblocks series, designed for parents to use at home with children
Measures
Comparing different aspects such as length, weight and volume, as a preliminary to using units to compare later
Numberblocks – Series 1
Series 1, all episodes
Checkpoints
Diagnostic maths activities to help teachers develop their assessment of students' prior learning for KS3
Year 4 curriculum map
The whole of Year 4, split into units
Year 5 curriculum map
The whole of Year 5, split into units
Year 6 curriculum map
The whole of Year 6, split into units
Year 2 curriculum map
The whole of Year 2, split into units
Year 1 curriculum map
The whole of Year 1, split into units
Year 3 curriculum map
The whole of Year 3, split into units
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
A Year 6 lesson on line graphs
A lesson from 2015/16 led by James Berry, subject leader and deputy head at Chesterton Primary School in Wandsworth
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
Position and direction
Unit 12 – 1 week
Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths
A term-by-term framework to support planning and teaching
Mindset: why is it so important in teaching for mastery?
Liam Colclough, a headteacher in Sheffield, is convinced that to introduce teaching for mastery effectively, a shift in mindset is required
Position and direction
Unit 10 – 1 week
Teaching for mastery at secondary: is it compatible with putting students in sets?
A visit to two lessons at Tomlinscote School in Frimley, Surrey
Meeting the needs of all without ability setting
Removing setting from maths teaching in a three-form entry primary school
Curriculum prioritisation in primary maths
What maths to teach for the rest of 2020/21
Teacher collaboration supports mixed-attainment classes
A London school models one possible way to make the transition
Times tables: 11 and 12
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.11
Composition
Understanding that one number can be made up from (composed from) two or more smaller numbers
Times tables: 7 and patterns within/across times tables
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.9
How can teaching for mastery work in a mixed age class?
A group of schools in Northamptonshire have been addressing this issue, with encouraging results
School sees better results through teaching for mastery
Embracing teaching for mastery in maths has seen pupils’ love for the subject contribute to some exceptional end of year outcomes for all year groups
Money
Unit 9 – 1 week
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
Statistics
Unit 8 – 1 week
The Bar Model
A representation used to expose mathematical structure
Times tables: 2, 4 and 8, and the relationship between them
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.7
Times tables: groups of 2 and commutativity (part 1)
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.3
Times tables: 3, 6 and 9, and the relationship between them
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.8
Times tables: groups of 10 and of 5, and factors of 0 and 1
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.4
Pattern
Looking for and finding patterns helps children notice and understand mathematical relationships
Why Mastery Readiness isn't just 'mastery-lite'!
The Mastery Readiness Programme enables schools to put in place structures, systems and positive mathematical culture so they can successfully engage in teaching for mastery
Shape and Space
Understanding what happens when shapes move, or combine with other shapes, helps develop wider mathematical thinking
Gap tasks: maximising the impact of Work Groups
We visit Gorse Hill Primary School Work Group in Swindon, and find out how gap tasks are driving powerful changes in pedagogy
A Year 3 lesson on multiplication
A set of video clips from 2014/15 centred on one lesson, focusing on the 6-times-table
Introduction to multiplication
Unit 5 – 7 weeks
Commutativity (part 2), doubling and halving
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.5
Understanding and manipulating multiplicative relationships
Unit 6 – 5 weeks
Calculation: multiplying and dividing by 10 or 100
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.13
Structures: using measures and comparison to understand scaling
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.17
Year 2 Shanghai showcase lesson
Ms Lynn, part of the the England–China exchange, leads a Year 2 lesson at Tubbenden Primary School
Connecting multiplication and division, and the distributive law
Spine 2: Multiplication and Division – Topic 2.10
Composition and calculation: tenths
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.23
DfE guidance on teaching maths at KS3
What the guidance consists of and how it aligns with other NCETM resources
Composition and calculation: hundredths and thousandths
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.24
Composition and calculation: numbers up to 10,000,000
Spine 1: Number, Addition and Subtraction – Topic 1.30
Post-16 Professional Development and Resources
Opportunities for developing teachers and maths departments and resources to support all post-16 maths teaching