Tom Manners

Very proud to have launched my website which I will continue to update. Plenty of free maths CPD videos for secondary and primary including my #ResourceFULL series which have had some great guests exploring the fabulous resources online. Take a look - tommanners.co.uk

This was great fun to deliver and was a great day overall!

I am proud to share that an article of mine ("Fixing the mathematics transition from primary to secondary") has been published in "Mathematics Teaching" from the @amieMathematics- this is the first issue of MT since the bringing together of several long-standing mathematics education bodies in the UK (I don't know if that makes this issue a collector's item or not, but I felt compelled to share this tidbit!) My article is freely available to all lnkd.in/ebujM82Y - please do share with anyone that you think would be interested, especially anyone involved with the Year 5-8 continuity work groups from the @NCETM . I am so pleased that I challenged myself this academic year to write more (and I intend to re-start my Substack blogs soon... ideas are forming all the time!)

Join us at the Daisy Education Maths Summit: North East 2026 to hear from Tom Manners as he explores practical, research-informed approaches to strengthening maths teaching. Do not miss Tom's session, Strategies to Prevent Misconceptions, where he will explore what the research says - and how to practically prepare for lessons to prevent the widening of gaps Tom works in school improvement in a number of roles, including: 🍏 Trust Maths Lead and Evidence Lead in Education for the EEF 🍏 Supporting a wide range of schools and multi-academy trusts 🍏 “Teaching for Mastery” specialist through the Central Maths Hub Expect practical strategies, clear links to research and actionable approaches you can take straight back to your classroom. Join us in the North East for a day of practical strategies to strengthen maths teaching and learning: tinyurl.com/kskzy5py

🎯 Meet Our Expert: Tom Manners Join us at the Daisy Education Maths Summit: North East 2026 to hear from Tom, where he will share insights into teaching for mastery and evidence-informed maths practice. Tom works in school improvement in a number of roles, including: ✏️ Trust Maths Lead and Evidence Lead in Education for the EEF ✏️ Supporting a wide range of schools and multi-academy trusts ✏️ A NCETM Professional Development Lead ✏️ “Teaching for Mastery” specialist through the Central Maths Hub. Alongside these positions, Tom trains the next generation of teachers as a PGCE Tutor at Arthur Terry SCITT in Birmingham. He shares his expertise widely, blogging at tommanners.substack.com, posting on @Mannermatics and providing free maths pedagogy videos and ResourceFULL interviews at tommanners.co.uk Join us in the North East for a day of practical strategies to strengthen maths teaching and learning: tinyurl.com/kskzy5py

And train with me! Please share with anyone who you think would like to find out more :)

@GauravDubay3 @researchEDBrum @matthewmoor3 @hydeh_rose @zena_chadwick OoooOOOOOoooh! Maybe!!

@researchEDBrum Do you think you'll go? @matthewmoor3 @Mannermatics @hydeh_rose @zena_chadwick

28TH FEB 2026. IT’S COMING. #rEDBRUM

It sounds like you made great progress! The students felt confident in what they had learned and are ready to build upon it! For this topic, there are so many small steps and pieces of knowledge, it is nigh-on impossible to complete in one lesson and expect pupils to learn it properly. Sounds like you had a positive day - good on you!

In one way we did not make much progress, but importantly the students grasped the idea, hopefully today was a solid foundation for the rest of the unit. #day2 #mathsteacher

Today I was teaching trig ratios to my bottom set year 11. I really concentrated on labelling the sides of the triangle correctly, and following the formula sheet notation. Then we used variation theory to identify which ratio to use. 1/2

It's Xmas decorating day in the Manners house! Thought this tree would be a good hook for two of my favourite prompts in maths classes "What do you notice? What do you wonder?" (wrote a blog on them if you missed it - open.substack.com/pub/tommanners…)

I don't enjoy controversy but I am nervously dipping my toe in... Is primary maths teaching more effective than secondary? I make some conjectures, pose some questions and consider some evidence in an attempt to develop coherence and encourage cross-phase collaboration. open.substack.com/pub/tommanners…

Given what I have been writing about recently surrounding primary and secondary practice, I thought I would share this blog that I wrote initially for the EEF on prompts used in the primary classroom that could be used in all mathematics classrooms. What do you notice? What do you wonder? tommanners.substack.com/p/what-do-you-…

Arghhhh! I look like a politician! Had a great day at @ThePiXLNetwork maths conference. I also appeared at the @DaisyEduUK conference today too! What a day!! But wouldn't change it for anything - I'm determined to make a difference in maths education! 💪

Delighted to be a part of this!

I'm a pedant when it comes to using the right mathematical language and also working with staff to script unambiguous expositions! So I've wanted to focus on this mathematical word for a long time as I think it creates confusion (or certainly has the potential to do so!) Times! I know people give me different answers to this but what does 3x7 mean exactly.... and does it matter? I hope you enjoy reading! Do please share with anyone you feel may be interested (and anyone who may want to contribute!) open.substack.com/pub/tommanners…

Thanks Bruno! I was delighted that this happened to be the lesson that the most adults were free for. They commented afterwards about the level of pupil thinking that was going on throughout the lesson which was fabulous! It's a great task that I've adapted in different ways for other groups. I think i was fortunate that this class were so determined- such a task may perhaps need to be altered if their resilience was lower!

A joyous post about a class working through new problem solving behaviours. I could *feel* the journey they went on. Nice work, Tom. 🙌

"Excellence in maths will provide the problem-solvers of tomorrow." - a line that shone out from the Government's response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review. So how do we create the problem-solvers? Developing the behaviours of a mathematician! Here's part 2 of a story from this week of how a group of year 6 teachers challenged pupils undertaking a problem and how they focused on the skills and strategies needed to problem-solve. open.substack.com/pub/tommanners…

@BrunoReddyMaths open.substack.com/pub/tommanners… Then here you go 😀

@Mannermatics Looking forward to the sequel already!

The timing feels somewhat perfect! I had undertaken a fascinating lesson cycle study with a group of teachers looking at creating a problem-solving lesson and I thought it would be worth blogging about…. And then the first headlines for the Curriculum reform were shared! So here you go! Here’s part 1 of 2 (the second of which will be uploaded tomorrow) tommanners.substack.com/p/what-would-a…

Given it is half-term and I struggle to switch off at the best of times, I decided to not write a blog this week! So instead I asked ChatGPT to summarise what I have writing about last half-term in my blogs on tommanners.substack.com 👌Tom Manners writes pedagogical-focused blog posts, with a strong emphasis on: 🤌Maths teaching and learning (tools, talk, showing workings) 👍The transition between primary and secondary education (especially maths) 👊How school systems, class groupings, teacher collaboration, and student behaviours all interact around these issues 🙏A consistent interest in equity and how practice across phases can better support students. Here's to more next half-term!!🍾 Feel free to share with anyone you think would find them interesting 😁