Welcome to the
Effective Maths
Securing Fluency Programme
The Effective Maths Securing Fluency Programme is designed to help teachers ensure learners have the necessary declarative (factual) knowledge to enable them to solve problems and understand concepts. In addition to this, from Key Stage 2 onwards, it helps teachers to secure a core set of varied calculation methods (procedural knowledge).
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Declarative knowledge
​​The declarative knowledge included within the programme is largely number facts, but also includes factual knowledge linked to measures and geometry.
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Procedural knowledge
​From Key Stage 2 learners need to secure fluency in a range of methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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​Manipulatives and representations
The programme makes use of a number of manipulatives and representations which are used consistently across year groups.
(NB The programme refers to ‘stages’ as opposed to year groups.)
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The lesson slides provide teachers with a strong starting point to deliver varied, engaging fluency sessions. However, the slides cannot just be worked through without additional practice, which often involves revisiting activities from the slides. The teacher’s role in assessing learners' fluency with the maths facts or calculation strategies is key.
To really secure fluency in maths facts, such as adding and subtracting across10, learners need to do so without counting forwards or backwards in ones on their fingers, on a number line or in their heads. Learners need to be able to automatically recall the facts. Teachers should assess learners' oral responses – simply providing the correct answers to calculations in a written test does not demonstrate that a learner has secured automaticity.
Featured video of slides from an
Effective Maths fluency lesson​​​​​​​​​