Mathematics education policies and reports: Teaching and Learning

This collection of reports explores the teaching and learning of mathematics. The reports include:

  • Mathematical Needs - The project comprised two reports which looked at the mathematical needs of Higher Education and employment and examined the mathematical needs of learners.
  • Deep Progress in Mathematics: the Improving Attainment in Mathematics Project - This resource describes how a group of ten teachers taught low attaining groups in secondary school, and what features were seen to be important.
  • Digital Technologies and Mathematics Education - These resources discuss the role that digital technologies might and should have in mathematics education.
  • Key Understandings in Mathematics Learning - These resources are provided by the Nuffield Foundation who, in 2007, commissioned a team from the University of Oxford to review the available research literature on how children learn mathematics.
  • Children's Understanding of Probability - The starting point in this report on children’s understanding and learning about probability is the sheer variety of the kinds of reasoning that are needed to solve problems about chance and uncertainty.

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Mathematics: Made to Measure

This resource from Ofsted, published in May 2012, is a full report and summary of the findings into the teaching of mathematics, based predominantly on evidence from inspections between January 2008 and July 2011 in maintained schools in England. Attention is drawn to serious inequalities in students’ experiences...

Mathematical Needs

In 2009, the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), who provide these resources, embarked on the Mathematical Needs Project to investigate how both the national needs and the individual needs of students, from age five to nineteen in England, could be met by a curriculum, delivery policy and...

Deep Progress in Mathematics: the Improving Attainment in Mathematics Project

This resource, provided by Anne Watson, Els De Geest and Stephanie Prestage, describes how a group of ten teachers taught low attaining groups in secondary school, and what features were seen to be important. The teachers had a shared commitment to improving the attainment of their lowest attaining students by...

Digital Technologies and Mathematics Education

These resources, written in 2011 and provided by the Joint Mathematical Council (JMC), discuss the role that digital technologies might and should have in mathematics education. Consideration is given to the types of experiences students encounter and how best to develop the curriculum to engage students in using...

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