Laura Dell

Explore insights from the 2025 KS2 arithmetic paper, using Question Level Analysis to identify strengths, gaps, and strategies for improving pupils’ fluency and conceptual understanding of high-value areas in maths.

Looking to boost KS2 maths problem solving and reasoning? This blogs takes a look at how to use bar modelling for questions involving measure in the End of KS2 SATs 2025 Reasoning Paper 3.

How to simplify key stage 2 maths teaching with beadstrings for fractions, decimals, and percentages.

Discover engaging multiplication and division activities using beadstrings and One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J Pinczes. Fun learning in primary maths for World Book Day.

Explore how to use bar models to solve questions from the Year 6 SATs 2024: reasoning paper 3.

Packed with modelling videos, this blog shows how to use Cuisenaire Rods as a simple tool to solve KS1 & KS2 fractions problems.

Packed full of practical ideas, investigations and games to secure understanding of fractions: The CPA approach in action.

In the second blog in our new ‘Inspire Me’ series, we explore how Cuisenaire Rods can be used to develop additive maths fluency.

A step-by-step approach to teaching problem-solving exemplified through the 2022 KS2 SATs paper 2.

We explore the differences between the 2019 and 2022 arithmetic papers. What can we learn?

We explore the differences between the 2019 and 2022 arithmetic papers. What can we learn?

Why should regrouping as a strategy be championed for division to make calculation easier and less prone to error?