Resource GuideMaths
Our new 2026/27 maths lessons are aligned with the White Rose Maths Version 3 small-step progression, taking children from clear teaching and guided practice through fluency, reasoning and deeper thinking. Each lesson draws on current EEF and NCETM guidance, with checks for understanding and resources to help you respond when children need more support or are ready for greater challenge.
How our new maths lessons work
The resources work together in a clear sequence. The PowerPoint teaches the new concept, Varied Fluency helps children secure it (including the right adaptive teaching resources where needed), and Reasoning and Problem Solving develops their ability to use and reason with what they have learned. Deeper tasks then take secure understanding further.
Teaching and Modelling PowerPoints
Our editable Teaching and Modelling PowerPoints guide the first part of each lesson, from prior learning through to independent practice. Children connect the maths to real-world contexts and explore a What do you notice? prompt, encouraging mathematical talk while helping you surface prior knowledge and misconceptions. New learning then follows our Model -> Practise Together -> Your Turn approach, with checks for understanding built in throughout. An exit task provides a final check on learning, helping you decide whether children are ready to move on or need further support.
Varied Fluency
Varied Fluency is the first core independent task, with questions carefully sequenced to help children notice structure, make connections and become fluent with the new mathematics. Most children begin with Core. Support and Stretch are there when formative assessment shows a child needs more structure or greater complexity, without assigning children to fixed groups. Each lesson also includes Scaffolded Examples and a Knowledge Organiser, giving you practical options for in-lesson support, small-group work, same-day intervention or pre-teaching when they are needed.
Reasoning and Problem Solving
Reasoning and problem solving is a skill every child needs opportunities to develop, not an extension for the quickest children. Our RPS tasks ask children to apply their learning, explain, justify, compare, spot errors and solve less familiar problems. Most children begin with Core, while Support keeps the reasoning accessible when extra structure is needed and Stretch increases the complexity for children who are secure. This keeps all children working on reasoning, while giving you the tools to respond to what they understand.
Deeper Reasoning/Discussion Problems
When the core learning is secure, Deeper Reasoning and Discussion Problems take the mathematics further without simply moving children on to new content. Tasks ask children to make connections, investigate possibilities, generalise, explain and justify. Discussion Problems also give you rich prompts for mathematical talk, making children's thinking more visible and giving you another way to assess the depth of their understanding.
More maths resources
Alongside the main lesson sequence, our wider maths library provides focused resources for retrieval, extra practice, mathematical language and classroom support. Practical Activities Practical Activities use manipulatives, representations and discussion to help children see the mathematical structures behind a concept. They are designed to support understanding of the mathematics, rather than add a practical task for its own sake. Rapid Arithmetic Available for Years 1 to 6, Rapid Arithmetic revisits previously taught arithmetic from earlier terms and year groups. Each resource contains three short sessions with answers, helping important arithmetic knowledge stay available for later learning. Maths in Minutes Maths in Minutes provides short, mixed retrieval practice across calculation, measures, statistics and geometry. Each resource contains three days of questions that bring previously taught mathematics back into regular use. Fluency Matrix Fluency Matrix gives children additional practice through small, deliberate changes between questions. This helps them notice what has changed, what has stayed the same and how that affects the mathematics, rather than relying on pages of near-identical calculations. Stem Sentences Maths Stem Sentences give children useful language structures for explaining relationships, describing methods and justifying reasoning. They support mathematical talk through oracy while helping children become increasingly precise and independent in how they communicate their thinking. Homework Our homework resources revisit mathematics children have already learned through varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving. They are designed for practice and application, rather than introducing new content at home. Homework isn’t for everyone, but it’s here if you need it. Displays Posters and vocabulary cards keep useful mathematical language, representations and concepts visible in the classroom, giving children clear reference points they can return to during learning.
Looking for our established maths resources?
Our new 2026/27 lessons are aligned to the White Rose Maths Version 3 small steps, so schools following that sequence can use the new resources directly. Classic resources remain available alongside them, giving you access to our extensive existing maths library when you want an earlier Classroom Secrets resource, an alternative activity or additional practice from our established collections.
Explore Classroom Secrets Maths
Explore our new White Rose Maths Version 3-aligned lessons for 2026/27, with teaching, fluency, reasoning and adaptive support designed to work together from the start of the lesson to the end.