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From Self-Doubt to Champions: Inside Carey Baptist College Forrestdale’s Approach to Maths Engagement

From Self-Doubt to Champions: Inside Carey Baptist College Forrestdale’s Approach to Maths Engagement

Discover how Carey Baptist College Forrestdale is building student confidence and engagement in maths through NBA Math Hoops, while Head of Maths Nathan Yuan uses Mathspace to identify learning gaps, support individual needs and inform teaching decisions.

What Can 1,000 Maths Students Teach Us About Using AI Intentionally?

What does research involving nearly 1,000 high school maths students in Turkey reveal about AI in education? Discover why unrestricted AI can undermine independent learning, how AI tutoring with safeguards makes a difference, and what intentional technology use means for maths classrooms.

How can you tell if students are ready for next year’s maths?

Not all learning gaps will hold students back in the same way. Learn how to identify the prerequisite gaps and misconceptions that matter most, so you can target support and help students build confidently on what comes next.

Meet the new Mathspace teacher dashboard: everything for your class, one click away

The new Mathspace teacher dashboard puts every report, textbook and task one click from each class tile, with the class and textbook already filled in.

Mathspace data breach: what happened and what affected users should know

Updated 8 September 2026 On 3 September 2026, we confirmed that unauthorised parties had accessed an internal reporting system used by Mathspace and downloaded information on students, their parents or guardians, and school staff. Mathspace staff records were also affected. The exposed information included names and email addresses, along with

How Can Schools Get More Value From Their Maths Technology in 2027?

As schools plan for 2027, it’s worth asking whether your maths technology is really earning its place in the budget. Here’s what to consider when reviewing the value your current resources deliver for teachers and students.

Does Handwriting Still Matter in a Maths Classroom?

Does handwriting help students learn and retain maths? Explore the research on handwriting, memory and why pen and paper and digital learning can work together.

Reducing Tech Time: How Can Teachers Balance Technology and Pen & Paper in the Maths Classroom?

How can teachers balance technology and pen-and-paper learning in maths? Explore how intentional technology use, digital feedback and independent paper-based practice can work together to support better learning.

Your Students Aren’t Forgetting Maths. They’re Stuck in Stage Two of Learning.

One of the biggest takeaways from Adrian Chan’s recent webinar wasn’t about teaching more, it was about what happens when students don’t immediately know the answer.

Why Do Students Forget Maths So Quickly? How Spaced Practice Builds Learning That Lasts

Why do students forget maths so quickly? Discover how spaced practice helps students retain and apply their learning long after the lesson ends.

Sharing Success Criteria: An Explicit Teaching Strategy Every Maths Teacher Should Use

Sharing success criteria helps students understand exactly what success looks like, not just what they're learning. See what it looks like in a real maths lesson, and how it connects to feedback and gradual release.

Explicit Teaching Strategies: Connecting Learning

Connecting learning helps students link new maths concepts to what they already know. See what it looks like in practice, and how Mathspace's skills map supports it.

We Stopped Rolling Out Features by Updating Millions of Rows

We Stopped Rolling Out Features by Updating Millions of Rows

Over the last two months, Mathspace's feature flag system evaluated 6.6 billion flags, averaging 110 million flag decisions per day. The two request-path lookups needed for those decisions, fetching user attributes and loading the compiled rule config, stayed around 40 ms at the 99.5th percentile.

Keeping One Domain While Splitting a Monolith Across Regions

Keeping One Domain While Splitting a Monolith Across Regions

We thought the hard part of going multi-region would be standing up another copy of the application. It was actually preserving the simple user experience of one public domain while keeping region-specific data and operational behavior from bleeding across boundaries. Mathspace had a monolith that was becoming two

Introducing Custom Worksheets in Mathspace

Custom Worksheets lets you choose exactly the questions your class needs. No more flagging pages to skip in textbooks. Just the practice set your students actually need.

What is explicit teaching in maths? A practical guide for the classroom

Explicit teaching is reshaping maths classrooms across Australia. See what the "I do, we do, you do" structure looks like in a real maths practice.

What's new in Mathspace this term

See the seven Mathspace updates shipped this term: Test Mode and Scorecards, question retries, Revision, Task Groups, subtopic resources, Topic Progress, and clickable report cells.

Teacher resources, right where you teach

If you've ever planned a lesson in Mathspace and found yourself clicking around trying to track down the matching lesson plan, slides, or worksheet — we heard you. A lot. Today we're rolling out a small change that makes a big difference to your prep workflow. Teacher

Revision is here: a personal practice bank for every student

Revision is here: a personal practice bank for every student

A new student-led feature is now live on Mathspace. Every question a student hasn't yet answered correctly becomes part of a personal practice bank they can return to whenever they have a few minutes. Every term, the same pattern plays out in many maths classrooms. A student

Stop guessing why a mastery score moved. See the evidence in one click.

You’re prepping for a parent–teacher meeting. You open the report and see Liam jumped from No Mastery to Proficiency this term. Great news — except you can’t remember why. Was it a steady run of solid work across the topic? Or one lucky question on a quiet Tuesday

Set goals with your class — and let them track progress alongside you

The topic readiness check-in now has a student-facing view, so your class can track their own skill progress across current topic and prerequisite skills.

How to set different due dates for different students without duplicating tasks

Set different due dates for different students within a single Mathspace task using task groups. One task, multiple groups, each with their own timeline — no duplicates needed.

Question retries now work after students submit a task

Question retries now work after students submit a task

Fix mode in Mathspace extends question retries so students can go back and correct mistakes after submitting a task. Their score updates in real time as they fix each error.

How to run assessments that actually show you what students understand

Test Mode in Mathspace removes scaffolding and uses AI to mark student reasoning with follow-through marks — the same way you'd mark by hand. Learn how it works.

Mathspace shortlisted for the BETT Innovation Award 2026 🎉

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Mathspace shortlisted for the BETT Innovation Award 2026 🎉

Mathspace has been shortlisted for the 2026 BETT Innovation Award, recognising our impact in student-centred AI and mathematics education.