Welcome to Effective Maths
Enabling high-quality maths teaching
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Effective Maths is a comprehensive framework for enabling great mathematics teaching.
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Subscribers to the website can access hundreds of high-quality lessons - from Reception to Year 6. These lessons are carefully designed to enable learners to understand key concepts and make connections within mathematics. There is a strong emphasis on developing conceptual understanding through the use of representations.
Clear instructional design
The lessons are designed with real clarity about the purpose of each slide. An ‘I Do, We Do, You Do’ approach lies at the heart of the instructional approach.
Purple slides are about direct teacher explanation and modelling. Learners work in carefully chosen partners and the blue, green and red slides are all about partner practice. Pink slides are for whole class choral work. The grey slides are independent practice.
Co-operative learning and talk
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The co-operative learning element of the programme sees a strong emphasis on high quality partner work. This includes plenty of opportunities for talk and partner written tasks on working out paper.
The talk element is crucial. Language is modelled clearly at the start of every lesson and throughout lessons.
Wide range of resources
A range of other resources support the programme including suggestions for greater depth, unit overviews, end of unit tests and revision materials.
Additional options include the quiz site, mathsquiz.org, and the Securing Fluency Programme.
We provide a specific approach to marking to ensure every learner makes progress after completing the independent task.
From September 2025
From September 2025 we will be introducing topic progression slides.
These slides will focus on one specific maths topic, eg equivalent fractions.
Also, from September 2025, the independent tasks will be editable.
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Securing Fluency Programme
The Effective Maths Securing Fluency Programme is designed to help teachers ensure children have the necessary declarative (factual) knowledge to enable them to solve problems and understand concepts. In addition to this, for Key Stage 2, it helps teachers to secure a core set of varied calculation methods.
The declarative knowledge included within the programme is largely number facts, but also includes factual knowledge linked to measures and geometry.
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