Mathseeds lessons—the core of the programme
Mathseeds lessons teach core skills with a motivating cycle of teaching and guided practice that actively rewards progress.
Mathseeds lessons begin with a focused, step-by-step demonstration of a core maths skill. Pupils apply each skill to a range of guided practice activities.
- Engaging animated lessons require frequent pupil responses.
- Immediate feedback ensures pupil success.
- A range of supporting practice activities build deep conceptual knowledge.
1 Step–by–step demonstrations
Highly effective lessons include explicit instruction, exploration and immediate feedback to engage active learners.
- Funny, playful characters guide learners through the programme.
- Complex skills are broken into smaller instructional units.
- Guided practice encourages pupils to roll up their sleeves and succeed.
2 A wide range of practice activities
Every lesson includes a wide range of short practice activities that reinforce skills through a variety of interesting formats.
- Pupils build deeper knowledge and synthesise skills.
- Short, brisk activities keep pupils engaged and on task.
- Self-paced activities allow pupils to review, revise and practise skills.
- Immediate affirmative and corrective feedback ensures pupil success.
3 Rewarding lessons that pupils really enjoy
Multi-layered reward system motivates pupils to keep making progress.
- Pupils earn golden acorn rewards for every activity they complete.
- Lesson completion rewarded with the hatching of a new online pet.
- Golden acorns can be traded for games, avatar items and treehouse decorations.
- Lessons build on a logical progression of skills.
4 Pupils progress tracking
Sequential map-based format provides powerful visual proof of pupil progress.
- The placement test places each pupil at the right level.
- Cumulative assessment charted to standards.
- Built-in assessment with end-of-map assessments and Driving Tests.
- Every pupil makes progress.
5 Useful feedback
Lessons fully support pupils and provide teachers with useful feedback.
- A powerful learning cycle of pupil-centric learning as well as guided and supported practice ensures pupil mastery.
- Timely feedback and rewards help motivate learners and inform teachers.
- Teacher dashboard reports data in a variety of useful, actionable formats.