The Best Whole School Primary Maths Programme
We Guarantee Big Maths Improves Standards!
When you know what a child knows, you know what to teach next!
Built to Help Teachers
Inspired by British Schools!
Big Maths identifies the starting position and then tracks every child on their learning journey through its assessment spine, our fun Beat That! challenges. Once you know what each child understands, you can easily identify the next simple steps to teach. For every step, we provide a multitude of resources to make your life easier and save you time.
We have mapped your curriculum to our steps, so you can easily produce medium and long term plans which meet all national expectations. The true power of Big Maths is in the simple weekly cycle where children complete the challenges which identify their learning gaps, allowing you to produce the perfect lesson plan before you teach the following week. When you know what your children know, teaching maths is a pleasure and so simple.
Value for Money
We want to help.
We want every teacher to have the opportunity to enjoy Big Maths, so every child benefits from personal, responsive learning journey. Big Maths is the best value whole school maths programme, for any school. As a small, Yorkshire based, family run business, for us it’s personal and every school is important to us.
Throughout the COVID crisis, schools and parents have been contacting us, concerned about fluency, mental maths and learning gaps. We have answered every call for help. There is no ‘Catch-Up’ with Big Maths, no opportunist bundle to sell. When children return to school, perform the baseline assessment and teach them the Big Maths way!
Give us a call or fill out our contact form, we would love to have a chat with you!
Big Maths is 10!
We’re celebrating our 10th birthday at Big Maths in 2020!
You benefit from our experience working with thousands of schools across the UK and internationally. We have listened to and acted on their experiences and feedback, improving Big Maths every year.
We are incredibly proud to know that hundreds of thousands of children have already enjoyed successfully becoming numerate through the Big Maths approach.
Enjoy our introductory video.
Big Maths Benefits
Encouraging a Growth Mindset
Your children will love Big Maths!
Our Big Maths Beat That! Challenges are unique because kids love them and want to do them so they can beat their best score every week! You’ll love them because they effectively provide you with a ‘window’ into each child’s brain. Oh, and…
NO MORE MARKING!
As children focus on their own progress and beating their best ever score, their enjoyment of maths increases. You find out what they can and can’t do, allowing your classroom focus to shift from attainment to progress. Embracing Growth Mindset principles means children believe they can constantly increase their mathematical knowledge.
Achieve Fluency!
Your Cohesive Whole-School Number Programme
Big Maths simplifies planning and teaching! Dedicate 20 minutes each day to basic skills and improving fluency. Every child can secure every number fact through ‘CLIC‘:
- Counting – exploring the number relationship of a fact, counting it out and deriving it for themselves
- Learn Its – simply practising and recalling number facts
- It’s Nothing New! – applying new contexts to facts, such as units of measure
- Calculation – addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
CLIC becomes a pacey daily numeracy session that always builds fluency on fluency!
Children love our Big Maths Beat That! challenges, focusing on their own progress and striving to beat their best ever score.Read more…
Don’t just take our word for it, have a look at how proud and engaged children are using our hashtag on Twitter –#BigMaths
Improve progress and attainment across school!
You see what each child knows, so it’s easy to know what to teach them next.
- Medium and long term planning is easy using your curriculum-linked Planning Area.
- Immediate, responsive planning is informed and simple using the Learning Gaps feature.
- Detailed lesson plans (including lesson PowerPoints) can be produced easily in minutes, with a few clicks of your mouse.
Read more about planning here…
Big Maths is the original Mastery approach!
Big Maths gives you a clear approach to bring the majority of your class to the same point in the numeracy learning journey. Thereafter, they can progress through the primary maths curriculum together, with clearly defined endpoints that all pupils can master each term.
The ‘Making it Stick’ journey (shown in the image) simplifies the process of transferring new learning from working memory to long-term memory. With resources designed specifically for each step, the process is easy and allows you to provide the appropriate challenge for children of all abilities, thereby managing your class spread. To read more about Big Maths and Mastery click below:
Navigate every step of the Maths Curriculum with ease!
Your job is our passion! Big Maths continues to grow and develop into a mature, state-of-the-art digital system that supports implementation in school with the absolute minimum workload for teachers and school leaders.
You can easily and quickly navigate around every little step of the primary maths curriculum. At each digital step, you can access:
- pedagogical guidance notes (to enhance subject knowledge),
- teacher resources to support their delivery (such as Lesson PowerPoints),
- pupil activities (such as practice sheets or problem-solving resources).
This digital flexibility leads to fast, meaningful planning providing every child with a bespoke digital textbook, without the cost and rigidity of a hard-copy textbook.
Would you like to be in the top 2% of primary schools?
Recently, two Big Maths schools received letters from Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP, Minster for School Standards. Globe Primary School and Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy were congratulated for results which place them in the top 2% of primary schools! We are delighted and proud to work with both schools!
Case Studies
Please take some time to read the Big Maths Case Studies provided by some amazing schools across the UK. The latest Case Study has been provided by:
As a school we can’t recommend Big Maths highly enough!
- At Globe Primary School, Big Maths:
- • manages pupils’ cognitive load and teacher workload
- • delivers a sequential curriculum covering National Curriculum expectations, embedding old learning and making new learning doable
- • provides a consistent but exciting pedagogical approach to Mathematics, enabling confident learners
- • gives a robust assessment system, which easily tracks the progress, attainment and next learning steps of cohort and individuals
- • offers transparency about the mathematical methods used in school
Focus on what you love… Teaching!
Big Maths provides you with thousands of tailored resources. To save you time, we have linked relevant resources to each step of learning.
Whether you need a Lesson PowerPoint for direct input, or problem solving resources for deeper learning activities, we have everything you need! So stop searching generic websites, or creating from scratch, and start accessing focused, tailored resources at the click of a button. Read more…
Sequences of learning for primary maths
There are serious consequences for pupils when a curriculum is not sequenced or designed effectively. Gaps in pupils’ knowledge accumulate as they become layered on top of one another in a curriculum sequence.
Big Maths is a systematic and structured approach to ensuring all children become numerate and then become fully rounded mathematicians. At the heart of this structure are the detailed sequences of learning. Our detailed teacher guidance for every step of learning in the Big Maths framework shows the background knowledge the child should already have in order to succeed, as well as a clear view of where that learning will head to next. This helps the teaching team to constantly improve their subject knowledge, confidence and school cohesion.
Professional Development and Support
For any school introducing Big Maths, we strongly recommend you have a Professional Development day to ensure all members of staff understand the pedagogy and principles. In response to COVID-19, we currently recommend online training, which offers more flexibility at a lower price than traditional ‘in-school’ training. If you prefer face to face, we can arrange this for you.
Each day of training has been refined to ensure that you receive inspirational, concise, and powerful input that enables you to have an immediate impact on return to your classroom.
Call us today on 01924 229380 to get started.
95% of teachers say they would recommend Big Maths!
Informed by research
‘Cognitive Load Theory’
‘Cognitive Load Theory’ has become increasingly recognised in the teaching community. Big Maths embraced this research over 10 years ago and consequently has a well developed curriculum design that always ensures children enter new learning with the background knowledge essential for success. Read more here…