Numeracy/maths | Centre for the Use of Research & Evidence in Education (CUREE)

Promoting good understanding of number concepts and skills

Aim: To identify which teaching methods are more effective in promoting good understanding of number concepts and skills for pupils to make significant progress in number at Key Stage 2.

Sustaining teacher researchers: what support really makes a difference?

Aim: The main aim of the project was to explore how to establish practitioner research as an effective and sustainable form of continuing professional development both for participating researchers and, through their research work, for colleagues within the schools and network.

Language Issues in the Teaching and Learning of School Algebra

Aim: To investigate the link between language and competence in algebra, highlight the problems experienced by pupils when learning algebra, and suggest some strategies for teachers.

The Da Vinci project - Can we change pupils' perceptions of creativity in Science and Mathematics?

Aim: To explore pupils perceptions of creativity across the curriculum, to show that being a scientist and an artist aren't mutually exclusive and to measure the impact of the project on pupils perceptions of creativity in Science and Mathematics.

Effectively Teaching Infants Mental Arithmetic

Aim: To examine the problems children encounter in arithmetic and to decide whether a programme of activities using visual images developed by Catherine Stern in the 1940s could be used by teachers to improve pupils' mental arithmetic.

An inclusive multi-sensory approach to teaching arithmetic

Aim: The focus of this teacher-led action research was to construct a programme of multi-sensory teaching activities to develop mental arithmetic capability in children from Nursery through KS1.

How can we encourage pupil dialogue in collaborative group work?

Aim: To investigate how different pupil groupings affect pupil dialogue and to develop and evaluate strategies and resources to support collaborative group work and pupil dialogue.

Teaching and learning Mathematics using an enquiry-based approach

Aim: The aims of the project were to answer the questions: What is an effective way to prepare to teach mathematics using an enquiry based approach? What would be the impact on pupil learning and attitudes of introducing an enquiry based approach to mathematics teaching in year 7?