Gill Shearsby-Fox

Mastering multiplication tables: Strengthen fluency, boost retention, and deepen understanding with a practice scaffold. Support learning through drawing, representing thinking, and putting multiplication facts into meaningful contexts for lasting comprehension.

Explore how the Mental Maths Fluency Intervention at Aboyne Lodge Primary School is closing gaps in children's learning, boosting their confidence and accuracy, and setting them up for long-term success.

Gill reflects on research and professional experience of how maths anxiety can present in the classroom where teaching assistants play a key role and shares strategies and training to support TAs to feel more confident.

Supporting pupils with SEND is a challenge for teachers. Explore a case study through short videos and carefully designed tracking back booklets.

Tracking back to go forward is a powerful strategy; build learning from secure foundations. Find out more about Making Fluent & Flexible Calculators in KS3.

In this blog, we explore the importance of making the implicit explicit when modelling and the value of verbalising your inner thoughts.

Gill shares teaching strategies that work for those children who don’t currently retain maths base facts or are unable to apply them.

Reflections around how the quality of education has been enhanced in two special schools through development of maths teaching and learning.

Do we encourage young children to draw pictures when engaging with the CPA approach? Are these pictures important?

The gaps in place value understanding are the main culprit when children can’t calculate - here are some ideas to fix this.