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...

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 ...

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...

Have you ever found yourself asking a learner a sequence of simpler and simpler, more and more focused questions, until eventually you reach a really simple one they can actually answer?  ...

What is it reasonable to expect of learners? Why don't they remember what they have been taught? Seeing a topic, technique, concept or idea go by once or twice is only an introduction. Enc...

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 ra...

Support mathematical thinking and learning by playing games Different pupils are stimulated to learn in different ways. Most pupils enjoy playing games. There are different ways we can use gam...

Shifting the focus of learning 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 ...

How can I tell if children in my Reception/Y1 class are making progress in their calculation skills When counting and ordering quantities, children are focussed directly on the quantitative as...

The ethos and atmosphere of the setting are the most important contributors to the learning environment. There are many, many examples of lists of ‘must have’ resources for any ear...

Its not what you do but how you do it that counts Mathematics is quintessentially about action, about doing things. Anne Watson & John Mason were inspired by a list of actions compiled by ...