The establishment of the Centres for Excellence in Maths (CfEM) resource hub on the ETF website in October 2022 felt like an important staging point in creating a legacy for the programme. The beginning of the end for this activity, it signalled a switch from focusing on new activity to gathering learning into a place where it begins to concentrate on the legacy it will create for post-16 maths teaching.
By the end of March 2023, by when the resource will be fully populated, its content will be broad and offer something for everyone from teachers to curriculum managers and those with a policy-level interest in the discipline. We hope it will become a springboard for improvements in maths teaching and learning across our sector.
But in order to begin to understand the potential impact of CfEM, before the resource nears completion, we sought the views of those leading the activity – the leads at the Centres – in November 2022, as they gathered for one of the project’s Forum meetings.
Their responses were interesting, and for those of us who have led on this work, deeply gratifying. One described CfEM as the “…most useful platform ever for maths teachers to make a difference” which is lofty praise indeed.
