Numeracy

Shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell accuses Rishi Sunak of announcing a ‘back-of-the-envelope policy’ while school roofs are ‘literally propped up’

Primary headteachers say P1 literacy and numeracy standardised assessments are ‘time consuming and onerous’, and interfere with play-based approaches

The disadvantage gap is still wider than before the pandemic despite the recovery of some learning lost during Covid, NFER research shows

Former spin doctor Alastair Campbell says many think Rishi Sunak’s plan has merit, despite Bridget Phillipson branding it an ‘undeliverable gimmick’

Any new maths qualification should be achievable for all students, says exam board, as Sunak plans a new style of British Baccalaureate

The idea that it’s OK to be bad at maths is widespread among pupils, but schools can do a lot to change their minds, say researchers Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair, who set out five myths about the subject that need to be busted

To ensure students are media-literate and able to spot fake news, we need to look beyond language lessons and explore statistics, writes maths teacher Jim Noble

New Scottish guidance to help teachers build links between numeracy and the arts has proven extremely popular

Maths is not a collection of facts and procedures, and we must stop viewing it that way, says Peter Mattock as he shares his advice for teaching conceptual maths

After recognising that many primary children struggle to solve arithmetic word problems, Gregory Macur designed his own game-based intervention. Here he explains how it works

After becoming fed up with spending hours marking her students’ work, Rachael Chong developed her own edtech feedback tool. Here, she explains how it works

Plans for all pupils to study maths to 18 must address the issue of maths anxiety as this is a big part of what’s holding many children back, says Alex Quigley