Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators is a whole class programme that supports all pupils in developing their knowledge and application of additive skills, which are gateways to pupils' success in multiplication. It aims to improve children’s understanding of mental calculation by focusing on establishing strong base fact knowledge and combining it with rich, flexible strategies to help pupils solve calculations efficiently and accurately.
The Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators programme:
- Provides a shared language for all pupils to have a range of mental calculation strategies that can be applied to a broad fluency range.
- Helps pupils solve simple calculations quickly and enables them to tackle more complex problems without relying too much on written methods.
- Enables the maths curriculum to continue but still provides manageable opportunities to practice and embed learning.
What are the aims of Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators programme?
The aim is to identify current mental calculation strategies used by a range of your pupils. A bespoke programme for your cohort of pupils is created to be delivered over a 6-to 8 week period.
The programme is fully resourced with:
- Short, easy-to-administer, diagnostic assessment
- Additional online learning platform to support yours and your colleagues ongoing CPD
- Full set of comprehensive teaching guides and teaching power points
- Carefully scaffolded independent practice resources
- Multiple sets of progressive fluency slides
Impact of the Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators programme
Pupils in KS2 made on average 8 to 9 months progress in their mental maths.
Students in lower attaining KS3 classes made on average 10+ months progress in their mental maths.
Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators delivery
Autumn term 2024
Online 2-hour webinar on Tuesday 15th October 2024 1-3 pm.
Full day's training Monday 11th November 2024, 9am -4pm.
For more details and to book, go to the HFL Education Hub
For further information or queries, please contact the HFL Events team at training@hfleducation.org or call 01438 544477.
Participation costs
The cost is £300 (+VAT) for spring term 2024 (currently partly funded). For autumn term 2024 the cost is £450 (+VAT).
The price includes all the resources, an online 2-hour webinar and a full day's training.
Find out more
Please register your interest or please email Charlie Harber or Gill Shearsby-Fox, Teaching and Learning Adviser on primarymaths@hfleducation.org
Read the blogs:
Supporting lower attaining pupils in KS3 maths to become fluent and flexible calculators
Making fluent and flexible calculators: why counting is not enough
Building maths fluency in base facts