🧮How can we teach times tables so they stick forever? I love using a counting stick to help children understand connections and lock facts into long-term memory👇 #TimesTables #StickyLearning #StrategyBasedApproach #MathsMastery

Do times tables matter beyond the Year 4 MTC? It’s a question Jon Cripwell asked me during our recent podcast chat - and it’s a great one. Here’s why I believe times tables matter beyond the check: 🌱 They unlock later maths: division, fractions, ratio, scaling, algebra. 🧠

Here’s the Pod description by Jon… #TimesTables #MathsCPD #MathsMastery #PrimaryMaths

Thrilled to chat all things times tables with the fabulous Jon Cripwell. You can listen to the podcast here 👇🤩 Spotify:

**New blog** https://t.co/jE43EoY9Jk

A fabulous day yesterday at the Primary STEM Conference in Brentwood, Essex! Loved meeting so many passionate educators and exploring explicit, strategy-based mastery teaching of times tables to build number sense alongside times table fluency and reasoning 🔢✨ Thank you

Heading south again! 🚗 This time for the Primary STEM Conference tomorrow, organised by the @ScienceHubHEB Excited to be exhibiting and running a workshop – From memorisation to mastery: teaching times tables with connections 🧮 If you’re attending and fancy exploring a

1 week to go! Primary STEM conference Talks, Workshops, Exhibition, Networking, Prizes Sponsored by @goodfuture_fdn and @Findel pH Science 21st October @Brentwood_Sch https://t.co/F8Ipw1kxHN

What an uplifting and inspiring day at #MathsConf39 in London yesterday - I loved sharing ‘Mastering Times Tables - A Strategy-Based Approach’ and having so many great conversations with brilliant, passionate educators 💙✨ It’s always a privilege to connect, share and learn

London bound! Woooohooo! 🙌🎉 Super excited to be running a Mastering Times Tables workshop at the #MathsConf39 conference in London tomorrow - see you there 🤩🧮 #MathsCPD #PrimaryMaths

🧮 Looking to make your times tables teaching even better this year? 👀 Take a peek at Tables Stick - a strategy-based mastery approach, key classroom resource (think bespoke counting stick - no post-its needed!) and practical, evidence-informed CPD. ✅ Explicit teaching &

Always a privilege to be invited to share Times Tables Stick with a room full of passionate, fabulous educators. Thank you to Milton School for sharing these lovely words after tonight’s Times Tables Stick CPD: ‘Staff training tonight on the amazing @tablesstick to help our

Very excited (like only a teacher could be 😆) - about my newly sprayed Numicon baseboard 🧡🧮 Guess what I’m teaching?! 😆 #Numicon #PrimaryMaths #Decimals

When we teach times tables using a strategy-based approach then the facts make sense and can be recalled, applied and built on confidently and accurately overtime ! 💪💡 What does great times-table teaching look like in your classroom? #TimesTables #MathsMastery #NumberSense

🧮Teaching times tables? Strategy-based teaching helps children make meaningful connections so times table facts make sense & stick. Using known facts, like the 10x table, to derive unknown facts, like the 9x table, is one simple example. When these strategies are practised

"Conveyor belt classrooms are typified by teachers who believe that the timetabled 'lesson' is a good unit of learning." Great blog from Mark on the importance of getting off the conveyor belt approach. Well worth reading!

Such a privilege to be part of a brilliant day at #MathsConf38 on Saturday! Huge thanks to @LaSalleEd and everyone who came to my workshop – it was fantastic to talk all things times tables, and lovely to meet such inspiring educators and have so many great chats. Thank you!

🧮“Maths thinking lies at the heart of learning maths…identifying relationships & reasoning about them. Mathematical relationships are built on patterns & structures we can teach pupils to make sense of, rather than simply memorise.” NCETM Let’s help children make sense of

🧮 Building maths confidence matters! 🎉 Let’s celebrate the wins - big and small - all of them, every day! 🙌 High-5 every ‘I get it!’ 👏 Cheer every ‘I’m starting to get it!’ 👊 Fist-bump one more mark… ✨ Let’s sprinkle the gold dust ✨ #TablesStick #PrimaryMaths

🧮What does effective times tables teaching look like? ✅ Strategy-based- builds on what children already know ✅ Mastery-aligned- small steps for consistent, structured practice ✅ Simple ✅ Builds number sense & confidence ✅ Evidence informed I’ll be sharing more at