Craig is a secondary school maths teacher, based in the North West of England. He is the Maths Adviser to the TES, the creator of mrbartonmaths.com, host of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, and the co-founder of diagnosticquestions.com. He also runs the (non maths!) blogs 555words.com and songsineverskip.com. His novels are Secrets and Mince Pies,Tell me a Story and The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics. On Twitter he is @mrbartonmaths.

We discuss making rich resources for the mathematics classroom as well as the state of mathematics education in the UK and the US.