Big Maths Online – What Is It?
Simplify Your Maths Teaching
Big Maths Online is a powerful system designed to reduce teacher workload while supporting both the teaching and management of maths in primary schools. With user-friendly tools and time-saving features, it simplifies key aspects of maths teaching, including:
- Planning and assessment
- Identification of Learning Gaps
- Detailed Tracking and Analysis
- Differentiated Practice Resources
- Pupil engagement and personalised learning
Whether you’re teaching in the classroom or leading maths across a school, Big Maths Online allows you to spend more time on what matters, teaching… not admin! We recommend that you focus is on each child’s individual learning journey, rather than their chronological age. Discussions around Age-Related Expectations are best reserved for conversations with colleagues and your Senior Leadership Team (SLT), allowing classroom practice to remain personalised, supportive, and stress-free.
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Proper maths teaching!
Big Maths is designed to be the leading primary maths programme, built specifically to help teachers recognise and respond to the individual ability levels of their pupils. At its core, it empowers you to use your professional judgement, adapt to the needs of your class, and teach at the pace that works best for your learners.
With Big Maths, you’re supported to make informed decisions in real time—so every child can succeed on their own learning journey.
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Celebrate success!
Each week is a chance to celebrate your pupils’ success, and with Big Maths Online, it’s easier than ever! Our ‘Print Certificates’ tool automatically generates personalised certificates for every pupil who:
- Beats their best-ever score,
- Achieves full marks, or
- Gets promoted to the next level
It’s a simple, powerful way to boost motivation, build confidence, and create a positive classroom culture around maths progress.
Best for Schools
Why choose Big Maths? Here’s what makes it the smart choice for your school:
- Promotes fluency and mental maths skills
- Fully aligned with your national curriculum
- Flexible and adaptable to meet the unique needs of every pupil
- Incredible value at just 23p per pupil, per week *
- Proven results, schools using Big Maths rank in the top 2% nationally in England
* Based on an average school size of 180 pupils—that’s just £1,700 a year to transform maths across your school!
Best for Teachers
Big Maths is designed with teachers in mind, offering everything you need to deliver outstanding maths lessons with confidence:
- Built-in support at every step
- A clear, simple, and responsive teaching approach
- Access to over 15,000 tailored resources
- Smart tools that reduce your workload
- Content that strengthens your subject knowledge
- And most importantly… pupils who LOVE maths!
Empower your teaching. Enjoy your lessons. Let Big Maths do the heavy lifting.
Best for Pupils
Big Maths is built to support every child’s success and confidence in maths:
- An assessment system that celebrates progress every week
- A clear model of progression, allowing children to understand where they are and what’s next
- Ensures teachers teach exactly what each child needs
- No surprises—resources, assessments, and lessons follow a consistent format from year to year
With Big Maths, pupils feel confident, motivated, and in control of their learning journey.
Informed by Research
Big Maths is built on a strong foundation of evidence-based research, drawing from:
- Cognitive Load Theory,
- Principles of Instruction,
- Neuroscience, especially how the brain learns best.
Our approach follows the proven “I do, We do, You do” teaching model, promoting pupil confidence, independence, and long-term success.
The Big Maths framework offers teachers a clear, structured method that strengthens mental maths and fluent calculation. With precision practice and carefully sequenced lessons, children progress at pace, securing key skills in long-term memory and building a solid foundation for future learning.