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.

Using rich mathematical tasks can solve many of the problems that arise at AS and A2 but what is a rich task and where can they be found? 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...

Logo is one of the most powerful tools for developing mathematical thinking in pupils of all ages. This article looks at "What is Logo?", "A brief history of Logo", how to ...

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...

Cognitive obstacles are difficulties which learners come up against in their thinking because of the complexity of the idea or topic. They are also known as epistemological obstacles because they i...

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...

The means of variables behave very intuitively, but not so the variances, and many pupils find this very difficult to really come to terms with. Even if they can say the right words when asked it expl...

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 ...

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 ...

Using the interactive whiteboard to enhance mathematics teaching. Find out more about using IWBs interactively in secondary mathematics lessons. For the full article click here.

Is assessing pupils more than giving them a mark out of 30 in a test ? At KS2 children are assessed at school internally with end of unit tests and externally with KS2 SATs tests. Regular asse...

Mathematics is perhaps the most creative of all the subjects and topics taught at school. The fact that in mathematics you can often decide for yourself whether your answer is correct or not l...

Some element of cooperative competition can motivate revision.   For the full article click here.

A question or problem presented by the teacher to the student, in which students can produce a first instance solution that, by design of the question, will not be wrong.   For the f...

The type of questions you ask learners (the types of tasks you give them) are likely to colour their impressions of the types of questions mathematics can deal with. In order to counter act a ‘g...

The results of discussion about how to engage pupils in a maths lesson, and to keep them engaged.   For the full article click here.