About us
Maths gives us power. It teaches us to imagine things never before imagined. To solve unsolvable challenges. But every year 30,000 children who were top performers at the end of primary school don’t go on to get top GCSE grades in maths. Half of top performers who were on free school meals aged eleven are no longer top performers by sixteen.
Axiom Maths exists to help schools change this.
We partner with schools to help every child with the head and heart for maths realise the potential of their power. We stick with them on a five year journey, from the first term of secondary school to the end of GCSEs. We craft curricula that inspire and challenge young minds, with problems that excite them, where they lose themselves in maths. We create social groups that nurture mathematical talent, where pupils feel at home and valued.
And it’s all fully-funded.
The backbone of Axiom’s approach is maths circles. These are small groups of pupils who meet weekly to tackle a curriculum of challenging maths problems. It’s an approach that’s worked successfully in other countries, and which Axiom is bringing to the UK. The beauty of maths circles is that they’re about the relationships as much as the maths. In maths circles, pupils:
- Work through a structured curriculum of challenging problems. They’re exposed to mathematics from beyond the National Curriculum, that takes them deep into stretching and satisfying topics they wouldn’t normally encounter at school
- Get stuck, and then unstuck. They get used to encountering problems that they don’t get right first time—and so the satisfaction of solving them is even greater
- Find themselves in a sense of flow. In maths circles there’s no pressure, no test. You get lost in the maths
- Join a community that values maths. In a culture that doesn’t always prize maths in the way it should, Axiom pupils join a social group that values and respects their talent
Pupils on the Axiom Maths programme attend maths circles once a week during term time. These are run by a combination of school and Axiom staff.
Visit out website for more information on how to sign up.
