Arithmagicians
Arithmagicians is an innovative maths learning platform devised by teacher Ebrahim Tafti to offering targeted practice to help students can sharpen their mental maths skills and reduce reliance on written strategies for problem-solving.
Building Pre-Foundations in Mathematics
This project, led by the Three Saints Trust in Merseyside, involves working in collaboration with nurseries, PVIs, and parents to empower adults to support children’s mathematical development. They are shown how best to help children develop early maths skills, with a focus on numbers, patterns, and sequencing.
Story Time Maths
Led by Dane Bank Primary School, in Tameside, this project aims to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged children through a storybook-based maths curriculum. It focuses on developing nursery-level maths skills, strengthening communication for school readiness, training practitioners, and empowering parents to support maths through storytelling.
A-Level Up
Grimsby teachers Sam Stenton and Aaron Lewis are developing A-Level Up, an app aimed at aiding A-Level maths students in exam preparation. The new app will guide students towards relevant questions, helping them identify and fill knowledge gaps efficiently.
Numeracy Bridger
Sam Slingsby, from the pupil referral unit Educational Diversity, in Blackpool, is working on a project aimed at improving the numeracy skills of the town’s most vulnerable children who are currently below the average for their age.
One Tool – All of the Facts
Amy How, a teacher trainer based in West Yorkshire, uses the innovative rekenrek – a wooden counting frame similar to an abacus – to transform number sense among young children.
Prodigy
Middlesbrough secondary school teacher Jonny Foster is developing an idea that will help students transfer knowledge and skills between maths and science and to make connections between their lessons and the real world. He is creating animated lessons that students can access online. He will build a profile of the students’ interests and their likes, and then deliver questions that are relatable to them.