New Maths Voices Wanted

With over 25 years of experience helping primary curriculum leaders and class teachers, Hamilton Brookes has considerable expertise in resource creation across the curriculum, and in maths in particular. Now that we are part of Oxford Brookes University, we have joined a team of exceptional teacher trainers and researchers, and strengthened our offer.

That said, change is a constant so we are always learning and adapting to our changing times. To do that, we are seeking new primary maths voices to amplify our thinking and support us as we invigorate our maths resources, across the primary age range.

We are seeking a series editor, plus up to three authors, to work alongside our wonderful, in-house team. The work will run from June 2024, and will likely extend into 2025.

We will aim to reply to all submissions by end of June 2024. Those selected for consideration will be asked to complete paid writing/editorial evaluation tasks - responding to a brief against a deadline.

We are not interested in promoting a ‘more of the same’ approach to primary maths - so do not feel you need to stick to any current policy or ‘ideology’ in your application. We are open to new ideas, and require someone who can synthesise those into clear implementation strategies, to make this work for others.

Neither do you need to be a paid-up supporter of Hamilton Brookes. We are more interested in your thoughts about how to maximise the effectiveness of maths teaching and encourage children to learn and to love maths.

We also know that most primary curriculum leads are adept in other aspects of teaching and learning, so we’d like to know what else you can do!

While this is an ‘informal’ process (i.e. not recruitment for a f/t role) we will seek to apply best practices in reviewing submissions to consider those factors.

This will be freelance work, which means that it would fit well around a part-time teaching commitment or other working arrangements (though we’d suggest it would likely be a struggle for a full-time post-holder). As a non-profit, we pay standard rates for work of this nature. You will be responsible for tax considerations, as a supplier to Oxford Brookes University.