year 3 maths

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

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 11 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 19 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

7 Spooky Halloween Maths Activities For Primary Schools: Terrifying Tasks For Your Class To Solve

7 spooky Halloween maths activities for your school.

By Connor Whelan 5 min read

[FREE] White Rose Maths Resources: Downloadable White Rose PowerPoints

White Rose Maths resources seem to be top of every primary school teacher’s resources wish list. Ever since the Yorkshire based group burst […]

By Alexander Athienitis 15 min read

How To Set Up A Maths Club: Easy Ways Every Teacher Can Make Their Maths Club Ideas Come To Life

If you have always wanted to set up a maths club but haven’t been sure quite how to do it then this blog […]

By John Dabell 11 min read

What Metacognition Looks Like In Primary Maths Classrooms

Straightforward advice and techniques to help you make sense of the EEF report

By Candida Crawford 13 min read

Your Quick Guide to the Place Value in KS1 and KS2

Your quick and easy guide to Place Value in the National Curriculum

By Jodie Lopez 7 min read

Maths Terminology (KS1& KS2): How to Teach Primary Pupils The Maths Vocabulary They’ll Need

In this blog, experienced Maths teacher and author John Dabell looks at the way we present information and use language in the classroom […]

By John Dabell 10 min read

Girls And Maths: 5 Ways To Boost Confidence In Primary School

Bringing girls and Maths together has proven to be difficult in the past, and our Maths consultant Jodie Lopez takes a look at […]

By Jodie Lopez 9 min read

The Comprehensive Maths Vocabulary List for KS1 and KS2

Have you been looking for a KS1 & KS2 Maths vocabulary list? If so this new maths vocabulary booklet is here to help […]

By John Dabell 3 min read

The Problem With School Visits [And How to Improve Them]

Why one TES author disagrees with a famous Dylan Wiliam "quote" on school visits (& how to get them right!)

By Claire Lotriet 4 min read

How to Stretch and Challenge More Able Pupils in KS2 Maths

John Dabell on his thoughts and experience teaching 'more able' pupils in Maths KS2, with tips and activities for teaching mixed ability

By John Dabell 7 min read

What I’ve Learnt About Primary Maths Leadership: 10 Top Tips

Gavin Goulds' take on Maths Leadership in a primary school, plus his 10 top tips for success

By Gavin Goulds 5 min read

What Is Fluency In Maths & How Do Schools Develop It?

Four approaches to developing Mathematical fluency & the best primary resources you can use to do it

By Rebecca Jakes 8 min read

What NEW KS1 Assessment Frameworks Mean For KS2 [Maths]

What every KS2 Teacher and Maths Lead should know about the KS1 Assessment Framework in Maths

By Aidan Severs 8 min read

How To Use Diagnostic Assessment To Inform Your Teaching

How we approach KS2 diagnostic assessment: When to test & what to do next

By David Leighton 6 min read

Teaching Time to KS1 & KS2: Your NEW Fail-Safe Method

Your fail-safe step by step technique for teaching time to KS1 & KS2: it's telling time made easy!

By Clare Sealy 10 min read

Common Maths Misconceptions (And How to Overcome Them)

Expert advice on common errors & misconceptions in primary Maths, and how to overcome them

By Clare Sealy 8 min read

Maths Tricks or Bad Habits? 5 Mathematical Misconceptions We Still Teach Pupils

Are you still teaching these "Maths tricks"? Here's why there's no place for them in the classroom

By Aidan Severs 6 min read

8 Ways to Close the Attainment Gap: EEF Maths Report

Every child deserves a good education. Here's how to make sure they get it: EEF Maths Report Summary

By David Leighton 9 min read

9 Key Changes to the Primary Maths Curriculum [Guide]

Find out more about changes to teaching EYFS, KS1 & 2 Maths, from new primary school DfE reports

By Aidan Severs 5 min read

The Myth of Expected Progress in Primary Schools

How one school uses assessment principles supported by Ofsted to focus on progress, not levels

By PrimaryY6Teach 6 min read

Why Maths KS2 SATs Interventions Shouldn’t Start in Year 6

Year 6 teachers to feel the most pressure for SATs, but this needs to change

By Aidan Severs 5 min read

How to Teach Times Tables for Instant Recall at KS1/KS2

Tested techniques to make sure your pupils have instant recall of all their times tables by Year 6

By Pete Richardson 7 min read

Your Free Place Value Concertina [KS1 & KS2]

Download your free Place Value Concertina, a never-fail resource for every primary teacher's toolkit

By Jodie Lopez 1 min read

Maths Talk for Lower Ability KS2: 5 Proven Strategies

5 strategies to get lower ability KS2 to engage in Maths talk & reasoning - loudly and clearly!

By David Leighton 2 min read

Using Maths Vocabulary to Develop Fluency & Reasoning

5 activities to develop pupils' KS2 Maths vocabulary and, therefore, their Maths reasoning skills

By David Leighton 4 min read

What’s Asian-style Maths? Why Schools Teach for Mastery

Get to grips with Asian style Maths & what Government investment in it means for your classroom

By Wendy Liu 4 min read

What Makes a Good Teacher in Primary School?

A great primary Maths teacher has the power to change pupils and parents attitudes to maths. Here are the 3 key ingredients to being that teacher!

By Sam Southwell 2 min read

KS2 Holiday Maths: FREE Homework Resource

Before your KS2 go on holiday, give them our free holiday Maths Pack resource to prevent summer brain drain!

By Tushar Ilwahdi 2 min read

13 Fun Outdoor Maths activities for Early Years to Year 6

Get your class outside in the last weeks of summer term with our top 13 outdoor Maths activities

By David Leighton 4 min read

Teaching Bottom Set Maths – Aiming for Outstanding

“Are we bottom set?” is a question that every teacher has heard and is usually followed by other questions such as “how do I move up a set?” and “why is this group so small?”

By Catherine Tighe 3 min read