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Five Big Ideas at secondary explained: Overview (opens in a new tab)
NCETM · 4:31 · Secondary · UK
NCETM's overview video explaining the Five Big Ideas in teaching for mastery, as they apply to secondary maths.
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Maths
Leading maths and the evidence
What the research says about maths teaching, and how leaders choose curriculum materials and improve maths across a school. Here you'll find reports, research and podcast episodes on what works in maths teaching, including the Grattan Institute's Maths Guarantee and the science of maths.
Practices in this area:The Maths GuaranteeThe science of mathsShared curriculum and lesson plansCommon mythsWhole-school improvement
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Webinar
The Maths Guarantee: How to Implement Great Primary Maths Teaching (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson, Grattan Institute · About 70 minutes · 2025 · Australia
Grattan Institute's Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson summarise the evidence on primary maths teaching and share lessons from seven case study schools that put it into practice.
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Webinar
Teaching Maths Using the Victorian Lesson Plans (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Sacha Giurietto · About 1 hour · 2025 · Australia
Sacha Giurietto walks through the Victorian Department of Education's free maths lesson plans, the position statement behind them and how schools can use them to teach maths explicitly.
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Webinar
Toni Hatten-Roberts: Science of Maths and the Importance of Fluency (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Toni Hatten-Roberts · 30 to 60 minutes · 2022 · Australia
A Think Forward Educators maths session with Toni Hatten-Roberts on the science of maths and the importance of fluency.
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Webinar
What you need to know about teaching primary mathematics (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Brendan Lee · 30 to 60 minutes · 2023 · Australia
Brendan Lee sorts through mixed messages about primary maths, covering what to teach, how and when, with attention to fact fluency and the hierarchical nature of the subject.
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Webinar
The Myth of Discovery-Based Learning in Maths (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Nathaniel Hansford · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Canada
Nathaniel Hansford compares discovery, inquiry and explicit approaches in maths, reviews meta-analysis evidence and addresses common myths about conceptual knowledge, procedures and productive struggle.
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What High Performing Countries are Doing in Maths (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Liana McCurry · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Liana McCurry shares what she saw of primary maths teaching in six countries on a Churchill Fellowship, and how practice there compares with Australia.
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Webinar
What is the Science of Maths? Implications for Instruction (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Siobhan Merlo · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Siobhan Merlo offers a cognitive science lens for judging maths teaching approaches, covering working memory load, primary and secondary knowledge, and how information should be presented.
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Implementing the VC2.0 Mathematics Curriculum (opens in a new tab)
Think Forward Educators, with Sue Davis, Impact Curriculum (formerly Ochre Education) · 30 to 60 minutes · 2024 · Australia
Sue Davis gives an overview of the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 for mathematics and a planning path from yearly overviews to lessons using Ochre Education (now Impact Curriculum) materials.
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Webinar
How to transform maths teaching: Lessons from The Entrance (opens in a new tab)
Grattan Institute · About 1 hour · Australia
A Grattan Institute webinar on transforming maths teaching, drawing on lessons from The Entrance. Suits leaders thinking about maths teaching across a school.
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Adelle Holmes: Teaching maths with a common curriculum at Clarendon (researchED Ballarat 2025) (opens in a new tab)
researchED, with Adelle Holmes · About 45 minutes · 2025 · Australia
Adelle Holmes's researchED Ballarat 2025 talk on teaching maths with a common curriculum at Clarendon. Of interest to teams considering shared lesson materials.
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System approaches to primary maths
104 System-Level Approaches to Improving Primary Mathematics (opens in a new tab)
Education Research Reading Room · with Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson
Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson from the Grattan Institute discuss their research on primary maths and what systems need to do to improve it.
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Ep 77 Five Math Myths (opens in a new tab)
Chalk & Talk
In a solo episode, Anna Stokke examines five common beliefs about maths teaching that sound convincing but are not supported by high-quality evidence.
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System approaches to primary maths
S03E10 Grattan Institute's Maths Guarantee Report (opens in a new tab)
Knowledge for Teachers · with Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson
Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson unpack the Grattan Institute's Maths Guarantee report, including equity gaps in maths and the need for high-quality curriculum materials.
FreeOpens at knowledgeforteachers.podbean.com
Evidence-based maths teaching
Ep 65 Science of Math (opens in a new tab)
Chalk & Talk · with Sarah Powell
Sarah Powell and Anna Stokke respond to an NCSM statement criticising the Science of Math movement and explain what the movement is.
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Is productive struggle ethical? (opens in a new tab)
Greg Ashman (Filling the Pail) · Substack · 2024 · Australia
Ashman questions the popular idea, especially in maths, of designing lessons so students struggle first, examining the case for constructivism and productive failure and the ethics of deliberate difficulty.
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The Maths Guarantee: How to boost students' learning in primary schools (opens in a new tab)
Grattan Institute · Report · Australia
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A curriculum sequencing experiment (opens in a new tab)
Alex Blanksby (VIC Maths Notes) · Substack · 2026 · Australia
An attempt to reorganise the Australian maths curriculum by the progression of ideas rather than by year level, so teachers can see what comes before and after each concept.
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What great maths teaching in primary schools looks like (opens in a new tab)
The Educator · News report on Grattan guide · Australia
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A video overview on teaching for mastery at primary (opens in a new tab)
NCETM · Presentation · UK
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Research Bite #64: The Student Grouping Study (opens in a new tab)
Craig Barton (Tips for Teachers) · Substack · 2026 · UK
Barton summarises an EEF evaluation comparing setting and mixed-attainment groups in lower secondary maths, covering effects on progress and confidence and the implications for schools deciding how to group.
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From coverage to coherence (opens in a new tab)
Mary Myatt (Curriculum 101) · Substack · 2026 · UK
Drawing on a conversation with a head of maths, Myatt describes how a curriculum that revisits content without deepening it can be rebuilt so pupils connect ideas and grow more fluent.
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The Maths Guarantee: A guide for principals (opens in a new tab)
Grattan Institute · Guide · Australia
Companion to the Maths Guarantee report, written for primary principals. Describes what strong whole-school maths teaching involves and the steps leaders can take to build it.
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Building Thinking Classrooms is still nonsense (opens in a new tab)
Greg Ashman (Filling the Pail) · Substack · 2024 · Australia
Ashman critiques Building Thinking Classrooms, arguing that it defines explained and modelled instruction as not thinking and that its claims are not supported by cognitive science.
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Making a case for standardised summative assessments in Australia (opens in a new tab)
Alex Blanksby (VIC Maths Notes) · Substack · 2026 · Australia
Argues for standardised assessments at the end of Year 6 and Year 10 in Australia, weighing objections and explaining what such data could tell schools about maths gaps.
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Research review series: Mathematics (opens in a new tab)
Ofsted · 2021 · Research review
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Grattan Institute (opens in a new tab)
Reports · Australia
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