FREE SAMPLES
Thank you for your interest in Effective Maths.
The links below take you to lessons from the Autumn Term.
For Year 1 the lessons are from Calculation (Unit 2).
For Years 2-6 the lessons are from Multiplication and Division (Unit 1).
Click here for some brief notes about how to use the lessons.
Detailed planning notes are contained within the lesson slides - click on the notes tab within a presentation. Use the space bar to advance the animations within slides.
Year 1: Calculation (Unit 2)
[7] Solving problems with numbers to 10
[8] Number bonds for 4 and 5 and related facts (revision)
[9] Number bonds for 6 and 7 and related facts (revision)
[10] Number bonds for 8 and 9 and related facts (revision)
[11] Number bonds for 10 and related facts (revision)
Year 2-6: Multiplication and division (Unit 1)
Unit overview information
Year 2
[6] Division: making groups of 2
Year 3
[5] Solving problems involving 3, 4 and 8 × tables
Year 4
[2] Reasoning about multiplication
Year 5
[2] Reasoning about multiplication
[4] Understanding division and recalling division facts
[6] Multiplication arithmagons
[7] Common factors and common multiples
Year 6
[2] Multiples and factors (revision)
[3] Prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers (revision)
[4] Efficient strategies for multiplication and solving multiplication problems
[5] Efficient strategies for division
[7] Multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number (revision)
[8] Solving problems involving multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number
[9] Multiplying a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Effective Maths was conceived in a different way to many other maths programmes .
The core resource – the website subscription (i.e. all the lessons) - is relatively cheap in comparison to buying sets of textbooks.
The programme has been designed in this way to enable schools to set aside some additional funding to focus on what is often a core issue: developing teacher pedagogy in the teaching of primary maths. In Effective Maths, this additional support is provided through development days. Through Effective Maths training teachers are constantly developed to understand the conceptual as well as the procedural.
Another key difference between Effective Maths and other programmes is the way that active teaching is built into the lesson slides and also the way that focused partner work is embedded. This is harder to facilitate with a text book scheme.
Many of the other schemes/programmes that exist present children with a series of questions – often with little accessible step by step guidance for teachers about how to ensure that the children will succeed in answering these questions.
Effective Maths also makes considerable use of revision within the year and across years: many schemes present the curriculum for the target year without reference to previous learning.
As well as the main teaching programme for Y1-Y6 there is also:
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a Year 1 transition unit
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a bridging unit for Y2-6
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the Year 6 arithmetic revision programme
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Year 6 reasoning revision lessons
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the opportunity to subscribe to mathsquiz.org at a reduced rate (see below)
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the opportunity to access the KS2 calculation consolidation programme for + and – for free (if your school has had training in this programme)
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resources to support Year 2 teachers providing evidence for KS1 moderation
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end of unit assessments
TRAINING
The best model for ensuring the effective implementation of Effective Maths in the first year is:
1 × INSET day
6 × development days (if the school is 3FE then experience shows that more are needed)
The first development day is largely about finding out where things are at in the school after the initial INSET.
As a result of this we plan future days, which typically include:
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brief learning walks to see where things are
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book looks
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demonstration lessons
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planning sessions with teachers – the focus of these sessions will vary – but often include issues around inclusion and greater depth – both of which are bound up with developing teacher subject pedagogy
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work with Year 6 staff
Other activities during these days include:
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CPD linked to specific maths topics – eg calculation, fractions, statistics
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CPD on problem solving – using the approach adopted by Effective Maths of heuristics – highly powerful
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CPD on differentiation within a mastery approach
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support for teaching assistants
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specific support/assessment and programme design for children working well below age-expectations – children with significant AEN
Support beyond the first year of implementing Effective Maths would be linked to circumstances in the individual school, but we would suggest all schools have at least one development day per term.
PLANNING
Click here for the curriculum overview.
Each unit comes with a unit overview sheet. These are designed to support teachers, leaders, parents, carers and others to have a clear understanding of the curriculum intent: to help ensure that the rationale and aims of the curriculum are fully understood by all. The cover sheets also include a list of the individual lessons within a unit.