Greg Chantler

Assistant Maths Hub Lead & Teaching for Mastery Lead; Intensive Support Partner @CODEMathsHub @NCETM

[NCETM @NCETM]

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[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

And the mark needed in maths to reach the expected standard has dropped below 50% for first time this year. Hardly mastery of the full curriculum even for those who have reached the heady standard of 49%.

[Insight @InsightHQ]

With the MTC results now coming in, here are our national estimates so far. Varying sample sizes, so some of these may yet see a bit of change.

Note that we've changed how we're calculating our Y2 Phonics estimate and this is now looking more in line with pre-Covid attainment

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

Am well aware how much KS2 SATs draw on knowledge of mult and div facts, but still quite stark seeing this year's arith calcs which use them set out together

[Clare Christie @Ms_Mathsteacher]

On a VERY stormy day about 10 years ago I was incredibly lucky to spend a career changing day with Anne Watson.

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@Ms_Mathsteacher Wouldn’t it be handy if there were links within the Oak materials to the relevant sections of the PD materials! 😀

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@stchris_trust @StGeorgesPlym @AllSaintsCofE @PSMInfants Things change quickly in a Top of the Rocks!

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@MrJamesPE I agree but having said that, Foden, Bellingham, saka, Rice, palmer, Gordon, mainoo are going to be around for a long time. Just kane, the defence and goalkeeper to worry about 😂

[Bruno Reddy OBE @BrunoReddyMaths]

I have a feeling Tanya’s op-ed will be well-received by high schools around the world, esp in NZ and Australia.

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In 2009, I made the mistake of assuming children would arrive from primary school with adequate competency in basic maths. In the first year at my secondary school, students didn’t (couldn’t) make the progress I knew they were capable of. I figured they’d pick up the multiplication tables simply through all the other maths we were doing. (“There’s loads of multiplication in Other Maths; they’ll be fine.”)

Turns out the multiplication in Other Maths was insufficient in itself to improve retrieval so *every* time they had to call on their memory to remember a times table (or fall back on deriving it), it was time consuming and inefficient. It was a blocker, if fact, to doing the Other Maths.

Faced with another cohort, in 2010, of year 7s who were as mathematically far behind as the first lot, I decided enough was enough. No more papering over cracks.

We would have to dedicate time in secondary school maths lessons to daily retrieval of multiplication facts. It would have to be pedagogically sound and it would have to give each student a sense of the progress they were making. Oh, and it had to generate lots of silly fun. 🤩

Hence the genesis of @TTRockStars

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Since then, primary schools in England have been making the most of cognitive science and dedicating sufficient time to low stakes quizzing of the tables and other things. Our maths results have never been better. (Not through fluency practice alone I would stress.)

England’s “teaching for mastery” approach (championed by the Maths Hubs, @NCETM @WhiteRoseEd @MathsMastery etc) has done wonders to develop children’s *understanding* of maths in parallel with intelligent retrieval practice, not at the expense of it.

I’d like to think that secondary schools in England, who have been downstream of the changes in primary for a while, are enjoying the hard work primary colleagues have put in.

So I totally get why headteachers in New Zealand are thanking Tanya for her excellent article. Let’s hope it leads to a change in the prevailing educational winds there.

[CODE Maths Hub @CODEMathsHub]

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[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@PSMInfants Great to see work at network meetings feeding in to staff meetings 👍🧮

[CODE Maths Hub @CODEMathsHub]

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[CODE Maths Hub @CODEMathsHub]

🚨📢 Headteachers! 📢🚨 Haven't signed-up to the brilliant Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 programme yet? We hope you received our letter last week. We'll be sending you a little email too with direct links how to apply this week.

We look forward to working with you!

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

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[Jen Pierce @jen_ttrockstars]

If you know any teachers or schools in the UK that would LOVE a class set of this fabulous book, please retweet and tag them! @JacobWoolcock @alarter @Mamamatician @gregchantler @Mr_L_edu @ThisIsLiamM

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@S_L_P_S Brilliant - the children are going to love it! 😎

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@St_Peters_Plym Great effort from all @St_Peters_Plym 👏🏻

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@StGeorgesPlym Well done to all @StGeorgesPlym - great effort 👏🏻

[Greg Chantler @gregchantler]

@PSMInfants This must be an older version as fluency with key number facts is on the updated one 👀😂 not that you need to worry about that!