Maths Through Stories

MathsThroughStories.org is a non-profit research-based initiative, based at the University of Reading's Institute of Education (UK). It sets out to support teachers and parents globally to become knowledgeable and confident in using storytelling to enhance mathematics teaching and learning through its wide range of free on-line resources. Since its launch, the website has now been visited over 1,580,000 times by around 430,000 teachers and parents from more than 220 countries. MathsThroughStories.org also organises the Young Mathematical Story Authors (YMSA) competition, which is the world's first annual international competition set up to encourage young mathematics learners (8-15 years old) from around the world to embed their mathematics learning in a meaningful and engaging context through creating their own mathematical story picture books. This competition has been running every year since 2019. Since then, the competition has received entries from almost 3,000 students across over 200 schools in 21 countries.