by Livia Mitson (May 2020) Trying to teach maths in the lockdown seems to be mostly about using external websites such as mymaths,...

by Jon Dunning (May 2020) Jon set an imaginative task during school closure to his Year 7 class: “Ask me two questions about what we’ve...

by Mark Dawes (April 2020) What does the ‘FACT’ key on a calculator do? I am going to share here a lesson I teach in the classroom and...

by Livia Mitson (April 2020) One of the problems with maths being a subject that everyone has to study is that lots of people get fed up...

By Cordelia Myers (April 2020) In my last blog post I wrote about the sorts of mathematics parents and children might be able to do...

by Cordelia Myers (April 2020) Teachers are used to change. The way schools have adapted to the current crisis is breathtaking. Think...

by Livia Mitson (April 2020) “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” The problem with being a teacher and...

by Jo Cayley (March 2020) For the past 10 years I have organised an annual maths week at my school, a small village primary school with...

(February 2020) This is the fourth in a series of posts about the visit made to Shanghai by Katie and Jo (primary school teachers) and...

by Katrina White, Jo Mills and Ruth Colenso (January 2020) This post explains some of the things Katie, Jo (both primary school teachers)...

by Mark Dawes (January 2020) For many people, maths is precise.  Mathematics is often exact.  Mathematical vocabulary however isn’t....

by Katrina White, Jo Mills and Ruth Colenso (December 2019) This is the second blog in a series about the recent trip that Ruth, Katie...

by Ruth Colenso and Mark Dawes (November 2019) In November 2019, three teachers from the Cambridge Maths Hub visited a school in Shanghai...

by Mark Dawes (November 2019) Desmos can be used to draw pictures that include straight lines and curves.  See www.desmos.com/art for...

By Mark Dawes and Cate Middleton (September 2019) Mark writes: Cate Middleton, subject leader for mathematics at Littleport and East...

By David Banham (June 2019) I am not sure whether my love of maths was inspired by my love of games and puzzles or vice-versa. What I do...

By Mark Dawes (June 2019) I spent an interesting day (7 June 2019) at the Cambridgeshire Maths Conference.  Organised by the...

By Mark Dawes (June 2019) This Year 6 SATS question from the 2019 paper 2 (Adam’s rectangle) has appeared in the press and on social...

By Mark Dawes (May 2019) I have lots of important piece of classroom equipment.  At the moment I am enjoying using my visualiser. The...

By Mark Dawes (April 2019) Despite having been a member of the Association for Teachers of Mathematics and The Mathematical Association...