As a Senior Lecturer in Primary Mathematics Education, Kathryn is interested in the perceptions that beginning teachers have about teaching mathematics. All primary teachers have to teach the subject, and it needs to be taught positively and confidently, but many of students do not feel positive or confident about mathematics because of the way they were taught. She would like to delve deeper into this and to explore what different strategies would be useful to help our beginning teachers to become excellent teachers of mathematics.