1. Mathematics in a Secondary Teaching School
Mark Dawes
Comberton Village College
[part of the Cambridge Area Teaching School]

2. Previous work Primary Schools Secondary Schools University departments
in-class collaboration
Secondary Schools
leading training courses for departments
supporting individual teachers in the classroom
advising/supporting/creating schemes of work
University departments
Faculty of Education PGCE course
NRICH
GeoGebra Institute of Cambridge

3. Secondary National Strategy
Initial idea/
materials/trialling
Training for advisors/
consultants
Training for Heads of Maths
Passed on to teachers within their departments
Impact on the pupils’ experiences in the classroom

4. Secondary National Strategy
Impact on the pupils
Passed on to teachers
Training for Heads of Maths
Training for advisors/consultants
Initial idea

5. NCETM
Funding for small-scale projects

6. MAST
Specialist primary maths teachers

7. CATS
CATS:
A Cambridge city school, two rural Cambridgeshire schools and an Essex school.
All have partner schools in challenging circumstances.

8. The future?
1] Ensuring that outreach work that we all offer continues, but that it is branded as CATS so we work together.
2] Working with Primary Schools (and Primary Teaching Schools).
3] Bringing teachers together to work on particular projects of interest to their school.
4] Beyond mathematics?