What is Winning With Numbers?
Winning With Numbers is on a mission to ensure children are fluent and confident with number. The Winning With Numbers programme is a structured and systematic number curriculum and learning platform that has been created by headteachers and primary maths specialists.
Winning With Numbers is like phonics for maths!
The Winning With Numbers curriculum identifies 300 pieces of number knowledge (300 WINs) and puts them in a straight-line sequence of learning making it easy for children, staff and parents to move from one WIN to the next.
The Winning With Numbers learning platforms comes with a comprehensive suite of teaching, learning and assessment resources for all 300 WINs. Winning With Numbers resources include:
Teacher and parent subject knowledge videos called 'Be the Expert'
Sequential teaching videos called 'Teach Me'
Explicit instruction teaching videos called 'Goals'
Online practice and retrieval questions
Online feedback and support through the 'Remind Me' feature
Individual score cards for children
Online tracking for staff and parents
Winning With Numbers improves fluency and confidence with number for children, staff and parents! Winning With Numbers will:
Improve outcomes for children
Upskill staff so they become expert teachers of number and reduce workload
Support parents to understand their child's learning journey and what they can do to help.
Educational Impact
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Alun Stephens
Acting Headteacher
Used Winning With Numbers daily for 4-6 months
Aug 2024
1. It has had immediate positive impact upon learning. 2. As a school we can see that over the next two years it will definitely improve standards once it is established. 3. It is excellent because it can be start being used with the very youngest children in the nursery class. 4. The interactive nature of using it on a variety of devices. e.g. iPads, Chromebooks, phones. 5. Parents are involved in their learning. 6. Staff can easily track the pupils in their class using the website. 7. Other schools have visited our school at this early stage and have been impressed by its impact.
Alun Stephens found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“When analysing the the procedural Welsh national tests in July it was clearly evident that of the 4 academic years using winning with numbers, three years were above national average and one year was within expected range. Many to most pupils had improved on their standardised scores.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Once the staff had used the programme for about a month they were able to confidently and easily access all the support available for teaching. The videos supported staff in how to teacher specific aspects of number and the method necessary.”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“Less experienced teachers and newer teaching assistants gained significant knowledge in how to teach fluency in number. More experienced staff also thought more carefully in how to teach number and is improving their pedagogy.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Of the classes that have used winning with numbers, many to most pupils had improved on their standardised scores.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Staff have also noted the pupils' greater fluency of number when applying numeracy across the curriculum.”
Jaime Pearce
Head of School
Used Winning With Numbers daily for 4-6 months
Mar 2024
Provides a clear structure for teaching of number fluency. It allows children to be confident with number and we can see an increase in subject knowledge of the staff.
Jaime Pearce found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“At the start of the year we said that 64% of the children were on track to be Age Related, since starting WWN we are now looking at 74%.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Resources are available and it allows a teacher to team teach. It helps with planning as it clearly has a starting point and end point.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly improves attainment“As we have only been teaching WWN for 6 months the early signs are that we will see a rise in attainment, however we need to judge this more at the end of the year.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Emma Kerr
Executive Principal
Used Winning With Numbers daily for 1-2 years
Mar 2024
It’s just brilliant, affordable and led by passionate and great people!
Emma Kerr found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Y6 2023 data placed two of our primaries in the top 10% of schools nationally for maths outcomes, progress was positive”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“The steps need to be smaller and support with identifying the prior knowledge/skill/step necessary to tackle an issue in KS2”
- Significantly improves attainment“Top 10% of country for Y6 maths attainment.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Basic number fluency and interconnectedness via regular quizzing and recap of prior knowledge”
Mar 2024
WWN really is 'precision pedagogy'. Without it I wouldn't be nearly as effective and my students wouldn't be making the amazing progress that they have.
Connor found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“My 11-year-old twins have been attending NumberSchool for the past 6 months, and the progress they have made is truly remarkable. Their school reports have been fantastic, and their teachers have noticed a significant improvement. Connor, their teacher at Num6er 5chool, uses Winning With Numbers. He has a teaching style that is both inspiring and engaging. They absolutely love his lessons and the fun games they get to play. Connor is not only understanding but also has a wonderful sense of humor. My son is dyslexic and also has other learning needs. The progression at Num6er 5chool is so precise that he found his next steps were always easy. Everything that he needed was in place. Right at the beginning, in about 15 minutes, Connor found out what facts were in his long term memory. This was done without the need to write anything or use a timer - things that would be very stressful for my son. He then put a schedule in place to help my son memorise the most important facts. This has been a real game changer. My son can now do lots of challenging calculations, all in his head. This is because, as Connor would say, “It’s all about getting the sequence of learning correct - and Winning With Numbers has perfected it!. Get this right and learning about numbers becomes easy for every child.” My son is proof that Num6er 5chool & Winning With Numbers really has cracked the code! My daughter has always enjoyed Maths and been really good at it - or so we thought - until she started using WWN at Num6er 5chool. Her mental Maths is now on a completely different level. Num6er 5chool quickly identified and plugged all the gaps she had in her fact recall then showed her the most efficient brain friendly ways to think. It’s got to the stage were her school teacher is telling her to stop doing calculations in her head and to write them down - even though she always gets them right!! One of the best things about NumberSchool is that it's all online, which makes it incredibly convenient and hassle-free. We have received great support throughout the entire journey. Thank you, Number 5chool, for making learning such a positive and enjoyable experience for my children. Parent - Clair, Ireland March 2024.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“WWN has really helped to keep my prep time to a minimum. I watch the videos with my students and then they go on to the bank of questions provided.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“WWN has taken my teacher knowledge to the next level. The sequencing and mini-steps via the goals are awesome. As a result all my students find their next steps incredibly easy - because WWN has made sure that all the prior knowledge that they need is already in place.”
- Significantly improves attainment“All my students complete 2 steps per week - this is equivalent to about 2 weeks number learning.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“How do you know? is my fav question. Due to the precision of WWN and their videos my students have a much deeper understanding of all the concepts covered and are very able to articulate what they are learning.”
Feb 2024
A fantastic scheme
Markella found Winning With Numbers:
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“N/a”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Mental fluency - confidence”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“Use of mathematical terminology”
- Moderately improves attainment“Repetition”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Independent work”
Camilla Hall
Specialist Curriculum Leader
Used Winning With Numbers daily for 1-2 years
Jan 2024
Although the children have significant gaps in their maths learning (for a variety of reasons, including COVID), WWN enable the teachers to go back and secure learning that was missed in order to move forward with confidence.
Camilla Hall found Winning With Numbers:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Gaps close quickly when used in addition to whole class teaching. i.e. interventions”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Curriculum small steps are well planned out for teachers. Teacher work-load is significantly reduced.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Teachers' knowledge of how the curriculum is sequenced is developed.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Too early on in our use of WWN to ascertain impact on attainment. YR have managed to keep up with their maths curriculum really well through WWN.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Links are continually made to prior learning, and how today's step (WIN) builds on previous steps (WINS).”
Jan 2024
Whilst it works for our school, I know some schools have alternative resources/schemes.
Kelly Lamond found Winning With Numbers:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Greater impact on fluency”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Increased teacher subject knowledge”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge“Subject knowledge and teaching methods embedded”
- Moderately improves attainment“Gaps in attainment significantly improved”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Children are more confident and can recall facts quickly”
Sean Harris
Research, Development & Innovation
Used Winning With Numbers weekly for 7–12 months
Jan 2024
WWN offers a fresh, innovative and robust approach to teaching and learning number. Furthermore, partnership with both Ben and Bethan Harding will create add real value and learning to your organisation.
Sean Harris found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“WWN has provided our teachers and pupils with a robust and evidence-rooted approach to teaching number. It allows for gaps to be easily recognised by teachers at all levels and address these gaps promptly.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The WWN approach builds on our extensive work as a Trust on teacher-education and understanding the mechanics of effective pedagogy. This supports teachers in not only understanding a science of learning, but readily applying it to their classrooms.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge
- Moderately improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Pupils not only a confidence with number through WWN but a genuine love of learning. It has been affirming watching parents and carers work alongside pupils as part of family open days. One parent said to me that she struggled to get her child off the WWN programme whereas previously she used to struggle with him coming away from Minecraft!”
Jan 2024
programme is logical, flexible, easy to use, pupils like it too
Rob found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“speed of recall, making links”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“resources availability, visual aids”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge
- Significantly improves attainment“confidence and application of knowledge to problem solving”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Debbie Lewis
Deputy Headteacher
Used Winning With Numbers daily for 3-4 years
Jan 2024
We all love Winning With Numbers because it is highly engaging for staff and pupils. It is an excellent programme for developing pupils mental arithmetic skills. There is a clear progression from our Nursery to Year 4 and there is a strong support for teachers in the delivery of the programme.
Debbie Lewis found Winning With Numbers:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Daily use of WWN enabled us to receive excellent results in our multiplication check last year. Parents are highly engaged in WWN and are supporting pupils at home by having access to the platform at home which is ensuring our pupils are making rapid progress.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are fully supported with the delivery of WWN as the platform provides teaching videos to explain each Win to them. Teachers can team teach with Ben and so work load is reduced and they are enabled to teach consistently good lessons. This in turn ensures pupils make rapid progress and learning gaps are filled quickly.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge“The video on each Win for teachers and parents really supports our teachers in understanding each Win. This means all teachers are confident in the teaching of each individual Win and how it connects with prior essential skills and knowledge.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Our maths results are consistently well above National in KS2 and WWN is an essential part of our children's mathematical learning journey and contributes significantly towards our results.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Pupils consistently demonstrate high levels of engagement in WWN lessons and have developed good mental arithmetic skills.”