What is involved?

Participants work with a small group of local schools, led by a Mastery Specialist, to embed teaching for mastery approaches across their department.

Work Groups provide opportunities for lesson observation and collaborative planning.

​Deepening your understanding of teaching for mastery involves focusing on its five big ideas: coherence, representation and structure, mathematical thinking, fluency, and variation. Key strategies include using concrete manipulatives to build understanding, breaking down concepts into smaller steps, and encouraging students to reason, discuss, and apply concepts in different ways. 

Benefits of joining this Work Group

• You will strengthen students’ understanding, reasoning and fluency
• You will deepen your understanding of teaching for mastery and how to embed it consistently
• You will improve collaborative approaches to planning, teaching and curriculum development
• You will build a culture of sustained professional learning through collaboration
• You will choose a focus area that aligns with your department’s priorities with resources to support it

What is the cost?

The Developing an Understanding of Teaching for Mastery Work Group is fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so is free to participating schools.