- 2019: LEGO® construction, spatial thinking and mathematics achievement
2019-23: Optimising learning of multiplication and division facts in schoolchildren
- 2019-23: Reasoning skills in post-16 mathematics students
- 2018-22: ‘1’ to ‘one’ and back again: A longitudinal investigation of the foundations of efficient number transcoding in early primary school
- 2018-22: Why do some children make more educational progress than others?
- 2014-22: Foundations of Mathematics: Understanding and Improving Early Numerical Skills
- 2017-21: Investigating and improving post-16 mathematics learning
- 2017-21: How do numerical symbols gain meaning?
- 2018-21: Partnership for Learning and Teaching in University Mathematics (PLATINUM).
- 2019-20: Exploring socially-distributed professional knowledge for coherent curriculum design
- 2017-20: Enabling Better Online Assessment in Mathematics
- 2017-20: Individual Differences in Attention in the Mathematics Classroom
- 2017-19: Transforming Transitions
- 2016-18: Student learning through collaborative design and teaching of STEM Foundation Mathematics
- 2017-18: Cross-linguistic Effects on Adults’ Numeracy: A Novel Eye-tracking Approach
- 2017-18: The Role of Teacher Knowledge and Classroom Resources in Understanding Equivalence Relations in Mathematics
- 2015-18: Mathematics Learning Disabilities from Childhood to Adolescence: New Evidence and Intervention for Very Preterm Children
- 2016-17: A review of interventions to improve primary school mathematics achievement
- 2017: Gender issues in STEM education
- 2014-17: Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity and the Development of Early Numerical Skills
- MEC Staff: Sophie Batchelor
- Funder: ESRC
- 2015-16: Discourses of Mathematical Modelling in Higher Education in Norway and England
- 2014-16: Understanding Mathematical Language: Construction and Analysis of Expert and Learner Corpora
- 2013-16: SIGMA: National Mathematics and Statistics Support Activities
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft, Janette Matthews & Moira Petrie
- Funder: HEFCE
- 2014-15: Developing Secondary Education Progress Measures in Mathematics and English
- 2013-15: Measuring Conceptual Understanding: The Case of Teaching with Abstract and Concrete Representations
- 2012-15: Skills Underlying Maths: Understanding the role of executive functions in the development of mathematics proficiency
- 2010-15: The relationship between advanced mathematical study and general thinking skills
- 2013-14: Are A level mathematics standards the same across curricula?
- 2012-14: The Impact of Premature Birth on Maths Achievement and Schooling
- 2009-14: Removing the mismatch between intentions and outcomes in GCSE mathematics
- 2008-14: The roots of arithmetic: Linking numerical cognition with mathematics education
- 2011-13: Premature infants' skills in mathematics
- 2012: Assessment in first year calculus
- 2012: Lecturers' perceptions of CAA
- 2011-12: Improving the quality of GSCE Mathematics examinations
- 2011-12: Views of graduates on the higher education curriculum
- 2011-12: Second year mathematics beyond lectures
- MEC Staff: Lara Alcock, Tony Croft, Matthew Inglis, Barbara Jaworski & Aruna Palipana
- Collaborators: Brown, Kay, Kenny, McIver, Strohmaier, Fitzgerald, Hallnas, Hawkes, Hunsicker, Newbold
- Funder: National HE STEM Programme
- 2011: Promoting participation and engagement in post-compulsory mathematics education for STEM
- 2010-11: Engineering students understanding mathematics (ESUM): An innovative teaching approach with integrated research
- 2010-11: A pilot for a shared online statistics advisory service
- 2009-10: Evaluating a computer-based approach for improving proof comprehension
- 2009-10: ExPOUND: Explaining proofs: Offering understanding through notated demonstrations
- 2009-10: FETLAR: Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment resources
- 2009-10: RELEASE: Upgrade of mathcentre and mathtutor
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft
- Collaborators: Skillbank UK
- Funder: JISC
- 2009-10: Uncovering the sources of arithmetic
- 2009-10: How should the equals sign be taught?
- 2009-10: Resources in mathematics for use with Electronic Voting Systems
- 2009-10: Technology for teaching
- 2008-10: Establishing the effectiveness of LGEs as a teaching strategy
- MEC Staff: Matthew Inglis
- Collaborators: Iannone & Siemons
- Funder: MSOR Network
- 2005-10: HEFCE CETL Award
- MEC Staff: Tony Croft
- Collaborators: Lawson
- Funder: HEFCE
- 2008-09: An investigation into how teachers can motivate and enthuse able mathematicians by developing pedagogy through different approaches to working with AGT students at KS4 in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire