Where is the outrage?

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

Collatz Conjecture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 The Welsh Government has called our current curriculum “prescriptive, narrow and outdated”.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