The free Family Maths Toolkit offers 230 activities for primary school children and focuses on getting the whole family involved. Activities cover key topics from the curriculum, but in real-life scenarios, such as baking or saving money.
As well as helping pupils see the value of everyday maths, the Toolkit includes suggestions for how parents and teachers can use them, as well as resources on inspiring a positive attitude to maths.
The resources have been a huge hit with schools that have used them: 100% of teachers would recommend the Family Maths activities to another school; 91% of children said they liked the activities; and 74% of parents said they helped them feel more confident engaging with their child’s maths learning.
Gillian Jones, acting deputy head of St Aidan’s Primary School in North Lanarkshire said: “Many of the Family Maths Toolkit resources totally saved us during lockdown. Parents can be hard on themselves, and this helped some admit they struggle to know how to support their children. With these activities, the children didn’t see it as a maths lesson, more as a fun challenge and a lot of grandparents, older siblings, even cousins got involved!”
Sam Sims, chief executive of National Numeracy said: “Improved number confidence and numeracy skills can be life changing. As children go back to school after a very challenging 18 months, we are re-doubling our efforts to help parents, carers and teachers support children’s numeracy, at a time when some children, and adults, could benefit most from developing greater confidence with numbers.”
