Inspiration for the Nation! Angles Maths Hub celebrates four years of creating excellence with Maths and Science Teachers across the UK 

Inspiration Trust’s Angles Maths Hub is celebrating an incredible four years of supporting Maths and Science teachers across the UK to deliver excellence within their schools and to their pupils. 

Headed up and led by Nicola Coe, Director of Maths, the Angles Maths Hub initiated and has been running a collaborative Work Group for Maths and Science teachers across Norfolk and Suffolk for the last four years. It has been highly successful and has generated interest nationwide across twelve additional Maths Hubs, with approximately 200 participants joining in one year alone!

Aligning with Angles Maths Hub’s core value of ‘sharing excellent practice for the benefit of all teachers and pupils’, the programme is designed to promote cross-curricular collaboration, a key element in developing a coherent approach to the teaching and learning of Mathematics. Developed from an idea that emerged within a single classroom of 30 pupils, the programme has been refined and developed and has positively impacted more than 1500 pupils across England.

Nicola Coe said:

“It has been an honour to lead like-minded teachers, on behalf of the NCETM, to investigate the benefits of working alongside cross-curricular partners. Upskilling teachers’ subject and pedagogical knowledge has a significant impact on their work in the classroom which ultimately improves the learning outcomes and life chances of pupils.”

 

Current and previous course participants have highlighted the importance of “seeing Maths in the context of the wider curriculum”, particularly from a student’s perspective. The Work Group’s content has developed teachers’ Maths and Science subject knowledge through mutual understanding of different curricular areas. This has enabled teachers to co-develop learning approaches and schemes of work that consider the coherence of Mathematical concepts between subjects - in turn improving pupil understanding.

Evidence of the programme’s success is evident in the collaborative links developed between individual Maths Hubs and their respective Science Learning Partnerships, (who jointly run the Work Groups), in addition to feedback from attending teachers. 

The success of the Angles Maths Hub Maths and Science Programme has been recognised by the NCETM, and a national version has been available since September 2023, for all interested schools in England that follow a Mastery Programme with the NCETM.