This HMSO resource from her Majesty’s Inspectors was one of a series intended to stimulate discussion and debate within the teaching profession. Published in 1979 following a two year survey, it was seen that mathematics was given a high profile by teachers but...

The Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) is a collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley and the Shell Centre team at the University of Nottingham, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The team is known around the world for its innovative work in maths education....

Mathematics begins (1967) is a revised and enhanced version of the Circle series ‘Beginnings' produced by the Nuffield Mathematics Project. As with the earlier guide it is concerned with students in their first few years at school and how their experiences of life gradually extend their mathematical thinking....

The main aim of Mathematics Challenge is to provide targeted one-to-one support to help those year seven students currently achieving level three in mathematics to attain level four.
Some pupils working at level four may also benefit from parts of the programme to...

The Mathematics Enhancement Programme has been developed over the past few years at the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. It set out to implement in UK schools the findings of international research. The scheme of work for each year is split into two parts, A and B. The MEP course has been developed in...

From 1998, under the direction of Professor David Burghes, a new mathematics course for primary schools in the UK was developed and trialled. This course, the Mathematics Enhancement Programme (MEP) Primary Extension proved to be very successful in enhancing mathematical progress in trial schools. Improvement in...

The Reception materials from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) which include the overall philosophy of the programme, OHP transparencies and copymasters from the English version of an Hungarian original which was produced for kindergartens in Hungary. The lesson plans do not cover all of the...

This resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, contains a collection of copymasters for reception class children.

Each set of copymasters is matched to a block of ten lessons.

The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching has produced these posters which are suitable mainly for reception classes but could also be used with Years One and Two. They are taken from an English version of an Hungarian original which was produced for kindergartens in Hungary. The Reception lesson plans make...

These lessons, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT), are grouped into blocks of ten, each of which is accompanied by a set of images in the form of copymasters. The plans for each block of lessons contain descriptions of the activities, teacher questions and references to posters or...

This paper sets out to give an understanding of what was distinctive about MEPP training and teaching, and summarises the findings from a research project to evaluate its effectiveness in improving students' achievement in mathematics.

During the development of the programme the government implemented its...

The supplements of examples from the Secondary Framework for Teaching Mathematics, produced by the National Strategies, illustrate what students should be able to do within a particular strand of objectives by the end of each year. The four strands being number, algebra, statistics and geometry each of which is...

This glossary, from the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA), was first developed in response to requests from teachers and others during the National Curriculum consultation in 1999. The explanations of mathematical terms refer to the terms as they...

This is the fourth annual Ofsted report to assess the success of the implementation of the National Curriculum across all four key stages. The report is based upon a large number of visits by Her Majesty’s Inspectors to a variety of schools in the academic year 1992-93.

The report highlights the areas of the...

The transition into post-compulsory mathematics education is summarised in this resource from the University of Manchester, which contains quotes from students and teachers about their experiences of working with the GCSE mathematics curriculum.

The report includes the following implications from the study...