What teachers said after they used it

★★★★★★★★★★“Laminated a set in September and they have been out every week since.”

We use these on the carpet for the first five minutes of every maths lesson. The children who came up from Year 3 well behind are now recalling the sixes without counting up, which I did not expect by February.

24 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“The code at the end is the reason they check their own answers.”

Ordinarily half my class would hand in a page of column subtraction without looking at it twice. They cannot finish this one without noticing a mistake, so the self-marking does itself.

21 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“The arrays finally made grouping click for my lower group.”

We had done counting in tens for weeks without it meaning anything. Seeing four rows of ten next to ten rows of four was the moment it landed for three children I had been worrying about.

17 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“My Reception class ask for these by name.”

The pegs give them something to do with their hands, which is half the battle at this age. I put them in the maths area in January and they have not come out of rotation since.

15 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“Went straight into the SATs booster folder.”

One side of A4 that does the job of three worksheets. Our Year 6 children who lose track of the columns keep it on the desk and stop asking which one is the ten thousands.

13 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“Made algebra feel like the missing number work they already knew.”

Year 6 usually freeze at the word algebra. Starting from missing number sentences meant nobody noticed they had started until the second page. I would like an answer sheet with the working shown, not just the answers.

12 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“Brilliant for the Year 4 check, one small gripe about printing.”

Exactly what we needed in the run up to the multiplication tables check. It eats colour ink if you print a set per table, so we did ours in greyscale on card and it still worked fine.

9 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“Cut them out once and they last the year.”

We use them as a matching game on the carpet and again as a morning task. Printing on plain paper was a mistake, they need card, but that is on me rather than the resource.

6 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“Useful, but my class finished it in twelve minutes.”

The maths is sound and the presentation is lovely. It is a starter rather than a lesson for a secure Year 5 group, so I would pair it with something longer. A harder version with exchanges across two zeros would get five stars from me.

7 teachers found this helpful

★★★★★★★★★★“The shapes on page two are not to scale.”

The idea is right and my class needed exactly this, but two of the rectangles do not match the measurements printed on them, so the children who measured with a ruler got a different answer to the children who added the labels. Easy fix, and I will happily raise it again once it is done.

14 teachers found this helpful