A research review published by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) warns that “many schools deploy highly qualified teachers to high-stakes classes, sometimes leaving younger pupils and low attainers without specialist teachers”.
The Secondary Maths Practice Review (Boylan et al, 2024) has been undertaken by Sheffield Hallam Institute of Education and is based on reviews of 54 academic studies in this area, surveys of 335 secondary maths leads, and nine focus group workshops.
It says that the teaching recruitment and retention crisis has hit maths hard and has resulted in a “less experienced workforce that has been teaching maths for fewer years”.
It states: “Almost half of all 2016 maths teaching (43%) was by those with six or fewer years of experience. This is of concern given that teacher subject knowledge, including pedagogic content knowledge, is a key factor in high-quality teaching and raising attainment of students.”
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