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Against a peach background, MNP character Amira holds a 2020 sign

Class activity: how many days are there in 2020 years?

By Laura Connell

A parent wearing green supporting her child’s maths learning at home. Above them are mathematical symbols and their house at the centre.

5 things parents can do to support distance learning

By Laura Connell

A teacher with various maths symbols floating around her, delivers a maths mastery lesson she planned for her mixed-age class

How to deliver maths mastery in mixed-age classes

By Laura Connell

Your Teaching Practice

Mixed-age learners represented by MNP characters Ravi, Ruby, and Elliot work together to solve a problem

The challenges and benefits of mixed-age learning

By Laura Connell

Your Teaching Practice

On a light blue background, four dice with varying dots on each of its upper surface, combine for a total of 20 dots

Maths games: addition and subtraction within 20

By Laura Connell

Symbolic of the winter themed activities for primary in this post, 3 snowflakes: teal, white and blue are numbered 1, 2 and 3

Walking in a winter numberland: activities for KS1

By Laura Connell

In a row, tools that could be used in differentiated instruction: a purple pie chart, a number bond & set of flashcards

How to put whole-class differentiation strategies into practice

By Laura Connell

Teaching Maths for Mastery

At the start of the school year part 2, three more members of the MNP community share their strategies for a successful year

At the start of the school year: part 2

By Laura Connell

At the start of the school year, three members of the MNP community share their strategies for a successful year

At the start of the school year: part 1

By Laura Connell

On a pale peach background, orange, green and blue classroom storage boxes are stacked smallest to largest

End of school year reflections: part 2

By Laura Connell

Maths Mastery Stories

+emily@mathsnoproblem.co.uk I can only select one person as the author of a post in wordpress. There's no problem adding individual author's bio at the end of each section, but the name at the top of the post (by: xx | date) can only be one. I could either: 1. Pick one of the 3 authors 2. Create a new contributor called "Guest Authors" or whatever name you think would work well for co-authored articles. 3. Install and plugin and modify our code to accept multiple authors. If you're not so keen on option #1, I'd go with #2. I'm not sure if that will affect our SEO ratings, but I can add "author info" as metadata on the page, so search engines should compute that properly. I'd only consider #3 if we

End of school year reflections: part 1

By Laura Connell

Maths Mastery Stories

3 key elements of Assessment for Learning represented by 3 keys, each on a separate keychain, labelled 1, 2 & 3 respectively

The 3 key elements of Assessment for Learning

By Laura Connell

Classroom Assessment

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