Our blog includes news and updates on a range of topics, all provided by our team of experts.
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
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