High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) is an institution set up in the wake of the Smith Report to improve mathematics teaching in England. It provides strategic leadership for mathematics-specific CPD and aims to raise the professional status of all those engaged in the teaching of mathematics so that the mathematical potential of learners will be fully realised. Its Director is Celia Hoyles, OBE, Professor of Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education, University of London and former chief adviser on mathematics education for the government.