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Fluency Before Understanding? The Hidden Sequencing Problem in Maths Education

I’ve been reflecting recently on something I noticed during a lesson a few years ago: a Year 9 class working fluently through factorising quadratics by inspection. Every student could produce correct answers at speed — but when asked to explain what they’d actually done, or why their factorisation was correct, the room went quiet. What

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Teaching Adding Fractions: What the Research Suggests We Might Be Missing

I’ve been reflecting recently on one of the most persistent challenges maths teachers face: getting students to truly understand adding fractions, not just follow a procedure they’ll forget by next term. It’s something many of us circle back to in quiet frustration — you teach it, practise it, test it, and then watch as half

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This Week in Maths: Post-results planning, Pearson updates and steady revision

This weekly round-up is here to save maths teachers time. Each week, I look across official exam and policy sources, maths education bodies, CPD providers, research organisations and trusted classroom resource sites, then pull out the few items most worth knowing. This week’s theme is after the papers, before the results. There is no dramatic

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