Where is the outrage?

On Thursday 4th June 2025, the Welsh education inspectorate Estyn published a thematic report into standards of mathematics teaching and…

Collatz Conjecture

The Collatz Conjecture is a famous unsolved problem in Maths. It is named after the German mathematician Lothar Collatz, who…

PISA scores were published in December 2023. Wales were bottom of the four home nations with maths, reading and science…

This post continues my thoughts about students’ bookwork and methods in Maths. Part one, about the trialling of separate exercise…

What is the point of a maths exercise book? I’ve never been sure of the answer to this. A #mathscpdchat…

When I started teaching I thought I was good at maths. Despite success at A-Level and university, I now realise…

This post summarises some of my thoughts, plans and actions undertaken with regards to the implementation of the Maths AOLE…

Recently I have been thinking how best to model examples to my classes. What should students be doing when I…

Here are some tasks I have been using with my Year 7 class which bring together some of the recent…

A new curriculum dawns for Wales. The Welsh Government has called our current curriculum “prescriptive, narrow and outdated”. As a…