Our journey to mixed-age teaching in maths

Read one school's journey to teach maths to mixed-age classes.

'It ain't what you intend, it's the way it is implemented, and that's what gets results'

Despite constantly saying that there is no silver bullet out there, I know that many wonder whether it is just that they have not found it …yet.

Reasoning about a Key Stage 1 fluency focus

Is there a need to develop fluency for the children in your class or school? Is this something that is holding them back from being able to calculate...

Maths is a universal language, isn't it?

If it is then why might some of our children who are new to the country initially find it puzzling?

Take a look through Ofsted’s three mathematics eyes. What can you see?

This is not about the need now to write out a lengthy statement for three I’s. A quick reflection to ascertain salient points would be helpful. Not...

Help! My pupils just can't reason to problem solve

Are we expecting our children to learn to reason by osmosis?

KS2 SATs Reasoning; Re-presenting the problem

Finding the maths camouflaged by the information in a question.

Detecting shaky learning and dealing with it

“Shaky learning” is often well hidden by pupils. Without getting to the root of the problem, you will only sticky plaster the cracks.

Analysis of 2019 KS2 Maths SATs Arithmetic paper (Part 2)

Helping schools think about how they might interpret the findings of the Arithmetic SATs paper outcomes, and how their findings might be translated...

Analysis of 2019 KS2 Maths SATs Arithmetic paper (Part 1)

What can question level analysis tell you about the KS2 SATs and what is it hiding?