Let’s talk about play

Developing our youngest children’s maths is essential, but seen as challenging. Fortunately, research tells us maths is best taught through play and...

Get outdoors and do some maths

If you go down to the woods today, be sure of a maths surprise! Deborah Mulroney considers how to make learning outdoors fun and engaging for all ages...

One activity – endless possibilities! How to adapt tasks to suit a variety of pupils

In this blog, Rachael Brown demonstrates a range of ways in which one maths task, game or activity can be tweaked to provide different levels of...

Unexpected activities that could help children get better at maths

From using jigsaws to underpin multiplicative thinking to using leaves to develop understanding of ‘shapes within shapes’, Rachel Rayner considers...

Get your game face on: why maths games for KS2 children provide great practice

Gaming has the advantage over traditional drill exercises because of the pupil interactions leading to rich discussions, peer correction and...

Starting from the beginning: how to learn times tables

Are we teaching times tables before we test them?

Love that MATHS in books!

Our lovely advisers give their recommended World Maths Day picks for books with maths in mind.

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...