By Malcolm Watson (Primary Teaching for Mastery Specialist, Cambridge Maths Hub), April 2026 One of the underpinning principles of Teaching for Mastery is simple and powerful: everyone can learn and enjoy mathematics. This is Essence Statement 1 (The Essence of Mathematics Teaching for Mastery | NCETM, and it is something I wholeheartedly believe. I’ve worked with the Cambridge Maths Hub for the last 10 years, and I’ve seen what happens when schools commit to high-quality teaching, coherent...

By Cordelia Myers December 2025 It has been my privilege to lead Cambridge Maths Hub for the last 10.6 years. This blog contains some reflections of those interesting and challenging 10 years. Key people Somewhat alarmingly (in retrospect) one of my first tasks in April 2015 was pivotal for the future life of the maths hub. I was asked by the NCETM to appoint four high quality primary teachers willing and able to be enrolled on the initial mastery specialist programme. As a secondary teacher...

By Mark Dawes, June 2025 Here is a 3-mark question from the 2025 KS2 mathematics SATS, paper 3: The mark scheme gives all three marks...