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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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. The resulting review is presented in a series of eight papers.

Paper 1 Overview - summarises...

Children's Understanding of Probability

These resources, from the Nuffield Foundation, follow a previous study which reviewed the available research on how students learn mathematics. Probability is the focus here and this review, published in 2012, was commissioned to explore several aspects of the topic....

Key Understanding in Mathematics Learning: Paper 1 Overview

This review, published by the Nuffield Foundation, presents a synthesis of research on mathematics learning by children from the age of five to the age of sixteen years and identifies the issues that are fundamental to understanding children’s mathematics learning. The report concentrates on three main questions...

Good Practice in Primary Mathematics: Evidence from 20 Successful Schools

This resource from Ofsted is a report and summary of the findings of the survey on good practice in primary mathematics teaching, which was conducted following a ministerial request for Ofsted to provide evidence on effective practice in the teaching of early arithmetic, published in November 2011. It focuses on...

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