Analysis of Ofsted’s Report on Mathematics Education : 13 July 2023. Focus on Primary Mathematics.

Jo Boaler is a top UK professor of mathematics education who currently works at Stanford University in the US.  She often returns to the UK and was very recently back to film for the ITV Tonight Show special on maths which will be shown this Thursday 30th October at 7:30pm. She was featured in the…

In my previous post, I published my personal response to this Ofsted report. The Joint Primary Working Group for the ‘Association of Teachers of Mathematics’ and the ‘Mathematics Association’ have now published a response which covers several more issues than those I wrote about in my response. Their work is available here.

Authentic Maths primary maths training has thrived.  The first thing I must do here is to express my deepest and most sincere thanks to every headteacher who has invested their money and time in this training and every teacher and teaching assistant who has contributed to it.  I don’t know how to put into words…

Authentic Maths training courses are now live to book here: https://authenticmaths.co.uk/services/ Use code Early50 for a £50 discount if you book before the summer holidays. Apologies for the delay in getting these live and advertised. I’ve been working on the Maternity result and trying to sort out the CAMHs crisis….. among other things. #sometimesitjustcomesatyou

I’m delighted to say that the series on number age 9-11 (years 5&6) is now complete. This puts me on track to complete all the 7-11 videos by the end of this year. I’ll be starting the final series – applied maths (shape, position, measure and data) next week. Links to all the videos published…