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While we advertise to recruit a new Design Project Lead, another of our Design Project Lead’s, James Etheridge, talks about his first year on the job. What attracted you to working for Mathematics Mastery, and more specifically working as a Design Project Lead? Mathematics Mastery’s mission resonated with my own belief that all students can…
Posted: 07/01/20
As the turn of the decade sees the return of the #10yearchallenge, Jade Sewell, Mathematics Mastery’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, asks how far we’ve come in the ‘teenie’ years towards understanding how to close the disadvantage gap. Social media shows lots of us casting back across our profiles to 2010 to compare what we looked…
Posted: 03/01/20
Dr Helen Drury reflects on Ofsted’s new inspection framework while launching a new section of the Mathematics Mastery website designed to help our partner schools communicate the ‘Intent’ of their curriculum and explaining how Mathematics Mastery supports teachers to close the implementation gap. England’s obsession with exam results has been really damaging for young people….
Posted: 16/12/19
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