Tom Rainbow

I taught Core Maths since its inception in 2014 until I started working for MEI in 2018. Core Maths for me was revelatory and I would say it was the single biggest shift in my classroom practice since I started teaching in 1994. I came to realise, pretty quickly, that by shifting the focus onto context and letting the maths follow, students responded in a very different way – quiet students became chatty, bored students became curious, weaker students became more confident.