Our blog includes news and updates on a range of topics, all provided by our team of experts.
Our programme will receive $750,000 to extend our reach further into Opportunity Areas around the UK and to enhance our programmes to meet the problem of poor maths provision in many secondary schools. The funding will enable us to deliver our programme to 9,000 more students from areas with high levels of disadvantage and for…
Posted: 05/12/19
Helen Drury, Founder of Mathematics Mastery, reflects on the significance of the results of a trial, published by EEF’s Education Data Service, 25 November 2019, to improve our understanding of the impact of Mathematics Mastery on key stage 1 (4 – 7-year-old) students. We’re a bit obsessed with evidence at Mathematics Mastery. We want to…
Posted: 27/11/19
Understanding misconceptions is at the heart of formative assessment. Beka Goh, Mathematics Mastery’s Design Project Lead, explains our new partnership with Eedi as we start to offer new diagnostic tests to our partner schools. Evidence points to high quality formative assessment leading to the greatest learning gains for students. However, the terms assessment for learning…
Posted: 14/08/19
With the release of Mark McCourt’s book, Teaching for Mastery, and the term mastery being used more widely both within and outside of mathematics education, new discussions have emerged over what it means to teach a mastery style of mathematics and, if the definitions of approach differ, whether there is a right approach. Let’s begin…
Posted: 22/07/19
Development Lead Lisa Coe explores the challenges of applying research in the classroom, talks about her own experience of being a research-informed practitioner and shares her advice for how you can use the ‘best bets’ of research to become an evidence-informed teacher. The status quo and the challenges In recent years, teachers have begun to…
Posted: 03/06/19
On visits to primary and secondary schools around the UK, teachers share tips with us on how they’ve used representations in their lessons to illustrate and teach key concepts. We want to share these tips more widely with the Mathematics Mastery community. We asked a few of our in-house experts to tell us about great…
Posted: 29/04/19