Teaching strategies for addition and subtraction facts is important, but strategies alone won’t help all students develop fluency. Instruction needs to provide a bridge from learning strategies to the accuracy required to engage in fluency-building activities.

Incremental rehearsal is a powerful one-to-one intervention for students to learn times tables bit-by-bit. Why not apply its principles to design a whole-class intervention? The result is here to download.

Our school has achieved outstanding results by avoiding high effort, low yield practices and investing in evidence-based practices.

Memorising addition and subtraction facts is vital for making progress in maths and helps students access more complex tasks.

Having a clear idea of what a quality maths curriculum entails is an important first step to improving student outcomes.