We're delighted to welcome Dr Georgios Thoma as Postdoctoral Research Assistant on our Leverhulme Trust-funded project (2025–2028) 🎉 Our collaboration (Reading, Cambridge & UCL/UCD) explores how student-authored maths story picture books can boost students’ learning & attitudes.

Aminath Asifa (a Secondary Leading Teacher from the Maldives) expresses her intention to use our Maths Through Stories approach in her teaching. Grateful to Research England for funding our policy engagement event. Read more at: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives

Azmath Didi (a Primary Leading Teacher from the Maldives) expresses her intention to use our Maths Through Stories approach in her teaching. Grateful to Research England for funding our policy engagement event. Read more at: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives

Abdul Sattar Gasim (Dean of Villa College's Faculty of Education, Maldives) intends to embed our Maths Through Stories approach in his institution's teacher training curriculum: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives Grateful to Research England for funding our policy engagement event.

Nadhiya Ahmed (Dean of Maldives National University's Faculty of Education) intends to embed our Maths Through Stories approach in her institution's teacher training curriculum: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives Grateful to Research England for funding our policy engagement event.

Dr. Fathimath Nishan (Maldives’ Deputy Minister of Education) intends to explore ways of integrating our Maths Through Stories approach into her country’s in-service teacher training: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives Grateful to Research England for funding this policy engagement event.

Aishath S. (Senior Curriculum Development Analyst, Maldives' National Institute of Ed) shares her reflection on alignment between Maldives' maths curriculum & our storytelling approach: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives Grateful to Research England for funding this policy engagement event.

Research at Reading is also helping teachers use storytelling to make maths lessons more engaging and effective! 🧮 Learn how @natthapoj.bsky.social, founder of mathsthroughstories.org/, is transforming how mathematics is taught across the Maldives. 🔗 rdg.ac/4licfFL #BackToSchool #EduSky

Sushil Upreti (UNICEF Maldives) highlights the synergy between my Maths Through Stories initiative in the Maldives and UNICEF's work on foundational learning: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives Grateful to Research England for funding this policy engagement event. @uniofreading.bsky.social

Dr Cassie Hague (OECD Headquarters, Paris), who co-facilitated my national Maths Through Stories implementation consultation workshop in the Maldives, shares her reflections on the event. Grateful to Research England for funding this policy engagement event. www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives

Dr. Úna McCarthy-Fakhry (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris), who co-facilitated my national Maths Through Stories implementation consultation workshop in the Maldives, shares her reflections on the event. Grateful to Research England for funding. Read more at: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives

Come and work with me at Reading on this exciting Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating the impact of storytelling on secondary students’ maths learning. Team includes Dr Ros McLellan (Cambridge) and Dr Flavia H. Santos (UCD & UCL). Deadline: 15/08/25 More at www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC158/p...

Today (26/07/25) marks 60 years of diplomatic relations and friendship between the Maldives and the UK. I am proud to help, in a small way, strengthen these ties through my Maths Through Stories initiative, enriching Maldivian students' maths learning: www.mathsthroughstories.org/news/maldives

Reading research is helping teachers in the Maldives use storytelling to make maths lessons more engaging and effective. Read how Dr Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai, founder of MathsThroughStories.org, is transforming how mathematicsvis taught across the Maldives. 🔗 rdg.ac/4licfFL

@natthapoj.bsky.social's ‘Maths Through Stories’ project is making mathematics teaching more accessible and more enjoyable for learners everywhere through the power of storytelling and children's imagination. #Education www.mathsthroughstories.org