Our blog includes news and updates on a range of topics, all provided by our team of experts.
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
Might teaching to the TAF result in a social injustice by narrowing pupils’ access to the broader curriculum they are entitled to and will the framework statements complement or contradict the mastery approach? Laura Tyler, Mathematics Mastery’s Primary Development Lead, sums up how the TAF interplays with our mastery approach. Year 2 teachers must be…
Posted: 24/04/19
Although the benefits of running Mathematics Mastery are clear, the journey to sustain and grow the programme in your primary or junior school can involve bumps in the road. Anthony Latham, Development Lead for Mathematics Mastery, shares his case notes from three very different schools and suggests a few ingredients for Mastery success. In my…
Posted: 25/03/19
Expecting that some children will struggle with mathematics quickly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. A headteacher once took me to a Reception class and pointed out a little boy who was chatting with the teacher. She proudly told me how good he was at mathematics, and confidently predicted that, in the formal assessments that would be…
Posted: 12/01/19
To teach mathematics for mastery is to teach with the highest expectations for every learner, so that their understanding is deepened, with the aim that they will be able to solve non-standard problems in unfamiliar contexts. In my first book, Mastering Mathematics: Teaching to transform achievement, I described mastery – the ultimate aim of teaching…
Posted: 03/01/19