Attainment grouping and maths: learning from mistakes | Research for the Real World

A look at how the evidence can help schools make informed decisions about the ways they group students and work towards equity and improving their life chances.

“We don’t learn mathematics from getting everything right, we learn mathematics from making mistakes… protecting children from those mistakes and errors really doesn’t help their learning.”

Dr Rob Webster and Professor Jeremy Hodgen discuss what attainment grouping looks like in England and what best practice looks like, his work with IOE colleagues on investigating the outcomes of mixed attainment grouping in mathematics and what effect the pandemic might have on existing grouping practices, and addressing anticipated learning loss.

Full show notes and links: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2020/aug/attainment-grouping-and-maths-learning-mistakes-rftrw-s04e03