This project is designed to support non-specialist teachers teaching maths in a secondary school in developing specialist knowledge for teaching mathematics, thus enabling them to understand, teach and support students in maths in the classroom. 

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The programme is aligned to the NCETM teaching for mastery pedagogy and is based on six key themes:

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• Structure of the number system

• Operating on number

• Multiplicative reasoning

• Sequences and graphs

• Statistics and probability

• Geometry.

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This programme is provided for non-specialist teachers of maths in state-funded schools who fit the following definition: 

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'A non-specialist teacher of mathematics is a teacher in a state funded school or college that is currently teaching some mathematics or has a commitment from a headteacher/executive headteacher to teach some mathematics within the next year who has not undertaken initial teacher training (ITT) in mathematics’

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For the purpose of clarity this could include:

a) Non-specialist QTS qualified teacher with an active commitment from their school to teach maths within the next year.

b) Non-specialist non-QTS teacher with an active commitment from their school to teach maths within the next academic year.

c) Overseas-trained maths teacher (from EEA or big 4) with:

    - QTS obtained through the mutual recognition route

    - Resident in the UK and eligible to work in England

    - Have an approved teaching post in a secondary school or college with commitment from their new school to complete SKTM

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Non-specialist teachers of maths will improve their subject and curriculum knowledge of secondary maths with a particular emphasis on mathematical structures in key areas.