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Numeracy - getting advice (adjustments) KS1

Use of evidence-based approaches to teaching Mathematics (e.g. Education Endowment Foundation Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1 guidance report).

Evidence-based whole class approaches to teaching foundational skills to mastery, e.g. Mathematical Reasoning programme.

Explicit teaching of mathematical vocabulary.

In the co-production of this document, Senco suggested interventions and approaches below:

  • Chilli Challenges’ – progressively more challenging.

  • Numerosity skills e.g. Number bonds to and within 20 including inverse;

  • Counting forward and backwards from any number;

  • Counting in 2s 5s 10s etc;

  • Sequencing the days of the week and months of the year;

  • Timetable Rockstars;

  • ‘BBC bite size’;

  • ‘Dave Godfrey songs’;

  • ‘Top marks’;

  • ‘Jack Hartman’ – action songs;

  • Komodo maths;

  • Concrete numeracy apparatus;

  • Numicon;

  • Base 10;

  • Singapore counters;

  • Work through the concrete to pictorial to abstract (CPA) approach;

  • Access to manipulative resources e.g., Cuisenaire rods (see also Ronit Bird exploring numbers through Cuisenaire Rods);

  • Number lines, number strips;

  • Counting sticks;

  • Hundred squares;

  • Multiplication square;

  • Clocks – digital and analogue;

  • Multiplication wrap arounds;

  • 4 in a row maths games;

  • Top trumps;

  • Board games e.g. frustration, scrabble etc;

  • Dice;

  • Dominoes.

Develop a visual calculations policy. Lots of schools have examples on their website.