Much has been written about the poor quality of ‘research reviews’ published by Ofsted recently, however the Mathematics research review published in May 2021 broke so many rules in the standards usually applied to reviewing research that, rather than having been written by authors with experience in research, it appears to have been created by experts skilled…
When the government announced its intention to develop a test to encourage schools in England to focus on ensuring children learn their times tables, few people complained because it is clearly the case that children benefit from knowing these results. Support for such a test was based on the assumption that any statutory assessment that…
Over the years I’ve got into the habit of stopping to write aims for my work at the beginning of each year. This has been so chaotic that I found it startling and reassuring to find that I had tried to meet all my objectives set in January 2021, had managed to deliver most of…
Now I’ve freeshared the fabulous primary maths teaching strategies from Cumbria, I’m focusing on interviewing some of the most brilliant minds on in primary education, both to showcase their work and to mentor and challenge them to think deeply about key issues. I’m incredibly proud of this interview with Alan Newland. If you’re doing something…
This account is not grounded in substantial research, however I have been working in primary schools as a consultant for nearly a decade now, I chat extensively with many teachers and I’m currently on supply in primary schools, so I’m probably about as well placed to try to describe what’s going on as anyone. I…
2020 taught me how hard it is to plan a month ahead, let alone a year ahead. However there are clearly sill benefits to me setting myself some aims and objectives so here goes: Create videos for year 2 (age 6) teaching. Update and republish (freeshare) my page-per-term outline planning guides (for each year and…
At the start of 2020 I had a plan. It was a plan to deliver high quality services and to build Authentic Maths into being a sustainable business. As for most people, in March everything changed. Although my CPD is of great value to schools and teachers, in general it has not been high enough…
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…
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Having spent two weeks trying to get to grips with all the software you’re supposed to use to do fabulous live-streaming – which simply doesn’t seem to work on my laptop – I’ve given up and will simply start livestreaming straight from YouTube on Sundays at 9am UK time (currently UTC+1). I’ll be taking questions…