Big Maths: Simplifying Primary Maths for Teachers and Learners
Make teaching primary maths easier by following the natural order of learning in your lessons. This approach breaks maths into simple, manageable steps, making it easier for children to understand. As a result, they can build strong number knowledge that forms a solid foundation for fluency.
In addition, we encourage teachers to build on what children already know and to track their progress over time. With the help of our easy-to-use resources, assessment tools, and tracking system, you can support children in becoming confident with numbers and fast at mental maths.
Big Maths Online includes over 15,000 unique primary maths resources linked to learning steps!
Big Maths is designed to support…
Schools
- Promotes fluency and mental maths skills
- Meets all of the requirements of your maths curriculum
- Costs just 23p per week for each pupil*
- Flexible – allows you to meet the needs of your pupils
- Schools using Big Maths have ranked in the top 2% of schools in England
* Price based on an average school of 180 pupils
(That’s £1,700 to save you working it out!)
Teachers
- Designed to support you
- A clear, simple, responsive method of teaching
- Over 15,000 bespoke primary maths resources
- Tools that reduce your workload
- Content that boosts your subject knowledge, and makes you a more confident teacher
- Pupils that LOVE maths!
Pupils
- An assessment system that rewards each child’s successes each week!
- A model of progression that allows children to understand the journey they are on, and what comes next…
- Allows teachers to teach what children need
- No Surprises! Resources, assessments, and lessons maintain a clear style all through school.
97% of teachers say their pupils enjoy Big Maths, with over 20 million challenges recorded and over 4 million primary maths resources downloaded!
We understand that teaching maths is a complex beast, so we’ve mapped all the small, simple steps of learning against the Age Related Expectations of the maths curriculum to the end of Primary School.
Big Maths is built to empower teachers — making maths learning manageable, engaging, and fun through a responsive, precision teaching method.
By weaving the natural mathematical laws of progression into your lessons, you can effectively prioritise Basic Skills to provide the foundations for Wider Maths skills as appropriate to each child’s ability.
Big Maths works because when you know what a child knows, you know what to teach them next!
“Big Maths has completely changed my approach and attitude to teaching maths – I love it! Having really struggled with maths myself in school I really wish I had been taught these strategies as a child!
They make numeracy so easy to understand in a fun and competitive way with the beat that’s and CLIC levels. Pupils and teachers have a clear progression of where they’ve come from and where they’re going and it’s fantastic to see the children really want to improve their scores each week and challenge themselves. The guides and steps make big maths so easy to teach and having taught P7 this year and seeing how all the steps the children have learnt really “clic” into place is incredible!
Such a fantastic resource and I can’t imagine teaching without it!”
Miss Millar, Stoneywood Primary School, Aberdeen, Scotland
5 reasons why teachers follow
the Big Maths roadmap…
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Streamline the EYFS-Primary curriculum, prioritise Basic Skills, and secure fluency at every stage.
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Grow subject knowledge across the school to create a shared, consistent approach to great maths teaching.
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Eliminate Learning Gaps with a reliable assessment system that consistently tracks progress and informs future teaching.
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Save your budget! Our maths resources are online, so there’s no need to buy endless textbooks.
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Free up hours every week so you can focus on what really matters—teaching and inspiring your pupils.
Big Maths at Home
Free access for Schools with a Big Maths Online Subscription!
- Practice our CLIC & Learn Its Challenges
- Learning Gap insights
- Practice Repeat, Revisit and Real Life Maths questions online
- Play simple games linked to the child’s Learn Its level
- Access some Teacher Notes and download PDF resources
Schools
Schools can use Big Maths at Home to rapidly identify the biggest learning gaps for every pupil in your class right now – without any planning or marking (hooray!).
Parents
Parents can create a Big Maths at Home account to rapidly identify the biggest learning gaps for their children and then use our practice resources to improve.
Teachers love Big Maths, here are a few examples of their feedback!
“We achieved our highest ever results in the history of our school for this year’s SATS results, thanks to Big Maths. (Almost 20% above national average). I highly recommend this scheme because BIG Maths is a comprehensive scheme with a strong emphasis on number. The scheme is far more than work sheets. The scheme is user friendly for planning; it is data driven providing attainment and progress levels automatically from KS1 to Year 6; making tracking easy. Weekly online tests (online assessment) inform teachers exactly where each pupil is at in his/her learning, thereby providing teachers with valuable input for planning. The scheme caters for individual growth: as pupils achieve the desired outcome they progress up the ladder. Customer support is always on hand, and they are always willing to please: always going the extra mile. Highly recommend!”
Head of Maths, London
“Curtis and Bill from Big Maths have been fantastic in helping our A.S.G in getting started and set-up with Big Maths. The support is second-to-none and they are always happy to help us. Highly recommend.”
Principal Teacher, Aberdeen, Scotland
As a shared headteacher of two small schools, going into our fifth year of using Big Maths, I have found that the design of the CfE aligned planning, the incremental learning through progress drives, the weekly assessment process and the detailed tracking and monitoring of pupil attainment invaluable to support consistency and rigour to ensure all learners become numerate.”
Headteacher, Lanarkshire, Scotland
“Big Maths has been an integral part of my teaching for a number of years. The website is easy to navigate and has a wealth of resources to support the learning and teaching process. I have watched my pupils make amazing progress from instant recall of number facts through regularly revisiting the Learn Its to understanding SAFE concepts with confidence. I would highly recommend this resource!”
Maths Leader, Falkirk, Scotland
“Big Maths has provided us with clear progression across our whole school where each step is broken down into steps that children can actually understand. As a school we love the online recording system and the way in which it helps plug any gaps to teaching and learning. Since using Big Maths the children in our school are enthused and gaining confidence-they can’t wait for their weekly test to beat their previous score-as a staff we have noticed how much more resilient the children are!”
Teacher, Durham, England
“As a learner, Big Maths training made sense of things I had ‘known’ as a child, but never fully understood. As a teacher, using Big Maths helped me become confident and happy to deliver a subject I used to see as dry and uninspiring. After using the resource in nursery, reception and Year 3; I can honestly say that the way planning and progression steps are set out has been a massive help. My particular favourite part of the online process is the ‘learning gaps’ where we can easily identify and cater for the needs of every child. Basically, everyone can succeed with this scheme- you really cannot ‘Beat That’!”
Maths Lead, Scotland