The background of the study
Three schools decided separately to change the way they teach in KS3 in order to help all students, especially the previously low attaining students (PLAS), to learn more mathematics. They were partly influenced by the findings of the IAMP project, published as 'Deep Progress in Mathematics', but mainly by their own concerns and past experience. In this study we followed their progress, keeping records of how the departments worked, what individual teachers thought, and what the teaching was like. We also traced the reactions of a sample of one cohort from entry in year 7 to SATs at the end of year 9. This sample was drawn randomly from a list of students who had achieved below level 4, or a low level 4, in KS2 SATs1.
| Year of CMTP project | School year of target cohort |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 9 |
