Classroom Teaching

Maths ideas, insights and inspiration on classroom teaching for primary school teachers and leaders

Knowledge Organisers: Best Practice To Help Pupils Retain What They’ve Learnt

Knowledge organisers, a tool whose origins lie in secondary education, have slowly been making their way into primary schools across the country. Also […]

By Anantha Anilkumar 12 min read

Our Top Tips For Teaching Maths Online: How To Keep Your Pupils Learning At Home

With schools shut down by COVID-19, teachers and SLT alike have been looking for alternative ways of teaching in this new paradigm, with […]

By Anantha Anilkumar 6 min read

Three Strategies Guaranteed To Develop Your Pupils’ Maths Language Skills

Since we began, Third Space Learning has provided online one-to-one maths interventions for over 60,000 pupils around the UK. In doing so we’ve […]

By Anantha Anilkumar 4 min read

How To Help Primary School Pupils Develop The Maths Language Skills They Need To Succeed In SATs

Maths language is an aspect of maths teaching we may not often consciously consider when planning and delivering lessons, because we’ve already been […]

By Eliot Morgan 20 min read

Evidence Based Teaching Strategies: 13 Techniques That Are Proven To Work

Gather a room of teachers together and they will give you as many teaching strategies as there are topics in the primary curriculum. […]

By Anantha Anilkumar 13 min read

Addressing Maths Misconceptions: The 4-Stage Process To Identify And Correct Misconceptions, Tested In Over 700,000 Lessons

At Third Space Learning, we teach around 7,000 online maths lessons every week as part of our 1-to-1 maths intervention programmes. That means […]

By Anantha Anilkumar 7 min read

The 21 Best Maths Challenges At KS2 To Really Stretch Your More Able Primary School Pupils

Maths challenges suitable for KS2 need to be part of every primary school teachers toolkit of lesson resources. Some children will readily grasp […]

By Emily Weston 13 min read

The Long Multiplication Method: How To Teach Long Multiplication So All Your KS2 Pupils ‘Get It’

The long multiplication method can be very difficult to teach in Years 5 and 6, as anyone who has taught upper KS2 before […]

By Neil Almond 13 min read

Best Formal Long Division Method KS2: Step By Step Teaching Guide To Help Your Year 5 & 6 Learn To Love It!

The formal long division method at KS2 often takes time to teach to both Year 5 and Year 6 and can be difficult […]

By Sophie Bartlett 15 min read

Quality First Teaching Checklist: The 10 Most Effective Strategies For Primary Schools

‘Quality First Teaching’ (QFT) has become one of those phrases that everybody uses, but not everyone agrees on how to define it. Here […]

By Neil Almond 15 min read

Primary Curriculum Design: Planning for Ofsted’s Intent, Implementation and Impact

Ofsted’s new focus on curriculum planning and curriculum design did not take Jon Hutchinson and his colleagues at Reach Academy by surprise. They’ve […]

By Jon Hutchinson 13 min read

Making Maths Lessons Fun – Is It the Best Way to Encourage Learning?

Making maths ‘fun’: we’ve all been there. We’re about to introduce a new concept to our pupils and we really want to make […]

By Russell Pearson 8 min read

8 Differentiation Strategies to Bring Your Primary School Class To ‘Good’

Differentiation and differentiation strategies, of all the strategies we use as primary school subject leaders and teachers to raise up our pupils to […]

By Neil Almond 17 min read

What Do The Best Primary Maths Teachers Do?

Ask any educator and they will tell you that teaching primary maths is not an easy thing to do, and for many maths […]

By John Dabell 15 min read

Why You Should Join The 90,000 Teachers and School Leaders Using The Free Resources in Our Maths Hub

Here at Third Space Learning our mission has always been to help schools transform KS2 maths attainment; providing teachers with the tools and […]

By Anantha Anilkumar 7 min read

How Cross-Curricular Learning Can Bring Maths To Life For Primary School Pupils

While schools grapple with their new, fully intentional curriculum, let’s not forget the value that cross curricular learning can bring to the primary […]

By Kerry Dalton 14 min read

Preparing For The Year 6 Transition: How To Make Sure Your Pupils Are Ready For Secondary School

Help prepare your Year 6 pupils for the transition into Year 7 with these top tips and free lesson PowerPoint.

By Emily Weston 12 min read

What Do Third Space Learning Pupils Think Of Their 1-to-1 Sessions? Find Out What They Had To Say!

With the Easter holidays here (or at least fast approaching) for many, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back at what […]

By Connor Whelan 3 min read

EEF Digital Technology Report 2019 [SLT Summary]: Essential Guidance For School Leaders On The Perils And Promises Of EdTech In The UK

Find out everything about the EEF Digital Technology Report 2019, including the 4 recommendations made in the report that you need to see!

By Aidan Severs 14 min read

Do You Know The 33 Mental Maths Strategies (KS1 and KS2) You Should Be Teaching In Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6?

Ultimate checklist of the mental maths strategies you should be teaching in KS2!

By Tim Handley 24 min read

Easter Maths Activities for KS2: Topical Maths Problem Solving

Use these "egg-cellent" KS2 Easter Maths activities in class this week to build reasoning skills

By David Leighton 3 min read

Using The SAMR Method To Do A School Technology Audit & Integrate Technology Ito The Maths Classroom

The experience of integrating technology in the maths classroom is different for every teacher, but one thing that has become clear over recent […]

By Jodie Lopez 12 min read

3 “Flipping” Great Pancake Day Maths Activities for KS2

We've worked "flat" out (geddit?) to bring you our favourite Pancake Day Maths activities - enjoy!

By Sophie Waterman-Smith 1 min read

International Women’s Day Maths Activities: Topical Maths Activities For Your Class

5 fab KS2 Maths activities on female Maths icons for International Women's Day.

By David Leighton 7 min read

The Best Of BETT 2019: Our Review Of This Years Show!

Worried you may have missed something at the show and are now looking for a review of BETT 2019? Fear not, we are […]

By Connor Whelan 8 min read

Five Top Pieces Of NQT Advice To Help You Get Through This Tricky Year

Take a look at these top tips for your NQT year.

By Sophie Bartlett 6 min read

2018 Year In Review: 232,073 Maths Lessons Taught, 214,776 Resources Downloaded And Almost 1,000 New Schools!

2018 was quite a year for TSL, so take a look at what we've been up to!

By Connor Whelan 4 min read

Times Tables Grids In The Classroom: How You Can Use Them To Create Multiplication Masters (Plus 11 Free Printable Times Tables Grids)!

Times tables grids, or multiplication grids as they’re otherwise known, are an essential and omnipresent feature of any primary classroom. But are your […]

By Alexander Athienitis 16 min read

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