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Hazel Howat
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Y6 Teacher, NCETM Primary Specialist.
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🌟 Calling all Early Years educators! 🌟
Ready to elevate your maths teaching, connect with passionate peers, and access inspiring resources designed just for you? Don’t miss this opportunity!

👉 Sign up today: buff.ly/pn2SOx7 @NCETM
September 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score).

“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Regular reminder of the existence of Maths Sheep Play Sheep, which I am extremely proud of and gives me joy every time I think of it. youtu.be/7Sr_pMbqgsE?...
Maths Sheep Play Sheep
YouTube video by David Butler
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May 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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🚀 Exciting News for School leaders, teachers and teaching assistants!
Registrations are now open for our 2025–26 programmes!
We’ve got a range of opportunities to help you grow and support your students.

🎯 Spaces are limited –secure your spot today!
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June 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🚨 KS2–KS3 teachers: Join a fully funded Work Group to strengthen transition from primary to secondary school.

✅ Collaborate cross-phase
✅ Deepen curriculum knowledge
✅Common use of approaches, representations and language across phases

Sign up here buff.ly/uOuWmBA
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🚀 The Specialist Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics (SKTM) programme offers a fully funded pathway focused on Number, designed to strengthen both your subject knowledge and pedagogical skills.

Sign up here - buff.ly/EYCd2aE

#MathsEducation #PrimaryMaths #SKTM #ProfessionalDevelopment #NCETM
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🎇 Teaching for Mastery (Sustaining) Work Group 🎇

"We were looking at examples of independent practice to see what mathematical structures it makes visible and what children can learn from it."

#collaboration #teachingformastery #mathscpd
June 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Only one week to go until #CalculatorCrunch returns!

From 23-27 June, at 8:00 each morning, we’ll post an exciting challenge for Year 6 and 7 children involving using a calculator.

Whilst you wait, check out the questions from previous years here: buff.ly/aAFcF4Z
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A bit more context here on Fibonacci and the importance of not jumping to conclusions when we spot a coincidence.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
How Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence
Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has produced a strange series of numbers in the league's record books.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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If as expected Liverpool win the Premier League this year, they will take their place in a very familiar sequence of champions (with thanks to Edward Matthews for spotting this pattern)
March 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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📣 What do Ofsted say about the Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 Programme? 📣
Click here to find out - buff.ly/ifvM97x

🎇 A programme to secure firm foundations in the development of good number sense for all children 🎇

For more information, click here to visit out website - buff.ly/gMEiifu
March 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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'The tower of ten cubes represents ten aliens. Splitting the tower in two represents the partitioning of aliens between two ships.'

In this blog Mark Williams shares his experiences of making meaning with manipulatives in a KS1 classroom.

👉 https://buff.ly/4hSIfOG
February 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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'How to develop disciplinary literacy in maths.'

In this blog, Elizabeth Bridgett shares the journey of developing disciplinary literacy in maths throughout Tudor Grange Academies Trust.

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February 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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'Mathematics teaching for mastery assumes everyone can learn and enjoy mathematics'

In his blog, A Pedagogy For Equity, Tom Pole asks the question, What can we learn from Teaching for Mastery in Mathematics?

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#UKMathsChat #PrimaryMaths #EduSky
March 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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It’s World Cancer Day! 🌎

Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed with primary bone cancer around the world, and their voices deserve to be heard 🧡

Learn more: ow.ly/M8Cb50USgeZ

Photo: Sarah mk Moody

#WorldCancerDay #UnitedByUnique #UntilTheresACure
February 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Sunset at the Callanish Stones, Lewis. August 2020 #OuterHebrides
December 1, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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In 2012, kids in PISA tests scored their maths anxiety.

In 2022, they did the same.

In almost EVERY country in the world, reported maths anxiety has increased. That's despite different politics, cultures, maths curricula etc.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Which Nation’s Students Are Defying the Math Anxiety Trend?
Math anxiety is up among students globally, but a few countries deviate from the pattern.
www.edweek.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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A few years ago, I made about 200 of these daily maths puzzles aimed at Year 6 and using the combined knowledge taught in KS2. mrsfclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/d...

#EduSky #PrimaryMaths
August 20, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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🥳Let's celebrate🎉
10 years of the Maths Hubs Programme and over 4.7 MILLION pupils impacted by this incredible work🤯 Watch the video to hear from a few of the MANY amazing people who are involved 👇
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#MathsHubs10Years
Celebrating 10 Years of the Maths Hubs Programme
YouTube video by NCETM
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September 16, 2024 at 8:27 AM