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When I first considered my department's priorities for the year, I admit, literacy was left to the side.

Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

Why do some teachers instinctively know which student to redirect with a glance and which one needs a quiet word at the door?

Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

One of my favourite mathematical tangents is to do with indices (or if you prefer exponents). We have a² “a squared” or “a to the power of 2“ We also have a³ “a cubed”…

I’ve been playing with my Do Now for years, I’ve finally moved to something I think is more effective thanks to tweets, blogposts and podcasts from the likes of Adam Boxer, Ollie Lovell…

It’s September and the marking of baseline maths assessments has begun for year 7 at my school, and no doubt yours too. At my current school we use the Sparx maths baseline assessment and the…

A previous post was about how etymology can help with the common misconception of getting the concept of Area and Perimeter the wrong way around. I wanted to have the excuse to discuss further some…

The Persistent ProblemAll subjects have a plethora of technical vocabulary that students need to interact with and learn in order to progress with their knowledge acquisition.Mathematics is a very …

Coaching cuts: bite-sized tips for better coaching

The below is an account of introducing the conventions of algebraic notation to my year 7 classes. I am very much of the opinion that "Algebra is the generalisation of Number" and hope this becomes ev...

Below are my typed up notes from my session at TTRConnect. This was an event hosted by Teacher Talk Radio held in Manchester on 1st March 2025. I had the honour of presenting with some other far mo…

This blogpost contains my typed up notes from the session I prepared for the TDaPE conference in Manchester. I’m going to be talking about counting in this session and the joy of Number. This…