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Please send comments by end Friday 5 December. This response focuses on two recommendations I think are deliverable, and would make a big positive difference to the lives of many students who are struggling with maths at secondary school. Rebecca
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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…
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