Mistakes – are they essential to learning? Click here for the full article.  

Babies of just a few months old can subitize. The term is derived from the Latin adjective subitus (meaning sudden) and describes the skill of immediately knowing how many objects there are. ...

What is it reasonable to expect of learners? Why don't they remember what they have been taught? Click here for the full article.

There is a link between the degree to which children are willing and able to talk about mathematics and their capacity to understand which should be used in the classroom to promote learning. Cli...

The ethos and atmosphere of the classroom, the ways of working established by teacher and learners together can have a profound effect on the effectiveness of the lessons. Click here for the full...

Given that female students now seem broadly to be performing as well as their male counter-parts at GCSE, why do we still need to concern ourselves with issues of gender and mathematics at school l...

Its not what you do but how you do it that is important Selecting activities that will promote learning and give opportunities to develop life skills such as working collaboratively or indepen...

What are the features of teaching Mathematics at KS2 Teaching mathematics at KS2 involves, planning,selecting teaching strategies, selecting suitable learning activities, selecting and usi...

Getting learners doing things is not enough to ensure learning, neither is getting them talking about what they are doing, neither is getting them to make a written record of what they have been doing...

There are three important phases to planning for teaching and learning: Long-term planning, Medium-term planning, Short term planning. What do we mean by each of these terms? How do we begin? What is ...

A fraction has many different images. What are your (and your students') images for ¾? The Primary and Secondary Strategy “Framework for teaching mathematics” states that o...

Where can teachers get support for planning effectively? The Renewed Primary framework for Mathemtics covers the National Curriculum for Key-stages 1 and 2. The Primary framework contains a range...

Research tells us that we remember 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we hear and see, 80% of what we hear, see and do. We all learn by doing but I suspect that learning by doing is ...

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