Notes from Mazio Maths

Adaptive learning software for primary maths explainedWhat adaptive learning software for primary maths adjusts, how to tell how far the adaptation goes, and which settings stay with the teacher. Learning app or learning platform: the difference for primary schoolsWhat sets a learning app, a learning platform and a learning management system apart, and which tool a primary school needs for maths. Finding a maths app for school with no ads or in-app purchasesHow schools can recognise a maths app with no advertising, no in-app purchases and no sharing of children’s data, with checkpoints for choosing one. Choosing a maths learning platform for primary school: the criteriaHow teachers and school leaders can assess a maths learning platform for primary school: content, diagnostics, data protection, costs and effort. What is Mazio Math? A maths platform for primary school lessonsMazio Maths is a learning platform for maths lessons in primary school. What children practise there, what teachers see and who provides it.

Strengthening basic maths skills: planning short daily practiceWhich basic maths skills primary school children need, and how teachers can secure them in lessons through short, regular daily practice. Is 1 m 5 cm the same as 1.5 m? Decimal measures in grades 3 and 4Why children write 1 m 5 cm as 1.5 m, which errors with measures in decimal notation are common in grades 3 and 4, and how teachers can respond. Mixed-ability grade 1: differentiating maths in the first monthsHow teachers can differentiate maths in a mixed-ability grade 1 class when children start school with very different understandings of number. Division with remainders: common errors in grade 3Which errors grade 3 children make in division and division with remainders, how teachers can recognise them and how to respond in lessons. The equals sign read as ‘makes’: a misconception with consequencesWhy many children read the equals sign as an instruction to calculate, which errors follow from it and how primary teachers can address it in lessons. Inclusive maths lessons: digital practice for children with SENHow children with special educational needs can practise maths digitally in inclusive classes, with adapted difficulty and the same content as the class. Line symmetry in grade 3: errors with diagonal mirror linesThe errors grade 3 children make when reflecting shapes in diagonal mirror lines, how teachers can spot them and how digital exercises can help. Maths for EAL pupils: reduce the language load, keep the mathsHow teachers help children who are still learning English in maths: reduce the language load, work hands-on and build key maths vocabulary step by step. Using maths puzzles regularly in lessons in grades 2 to 4How teachers can use maths puzzle tasks regularly in grades 2 to 4, for example as a start to the day, and discuss the children’s strategies with the class. Money in grade 2: when children count coins instead of adding valuesWhy children in grade 2 count coins instead of adding their values, which errors are common when calculating with money and how teachers can help. Geometry in primary school: what tablets can do, where materials stayWhat digital geometry practice can do in primary school, where tablets help and where folding, laying out and drawing with materials remain more important. 3 exercise books cost €6: additive instead of proportional thinkingWhy children solve tasks like “3 exercise books cost €6” additively instead of proportionally, and how teachers can build the functional relationship. Rotated square, “not a square”? Recognising shapes in grades 1 and 2Why children no longer see a rotated square as a square, what idea lies behind this and how teachers can show shapes in many different ways. 52 minus 37 equals 25? The “smaller from larger” subtraction errorWhy children subtract the smaller digit from the larger in each place, how teachers can spot this subtraction error and what helps in maths lessons.

iPad classes in primary school: which maths app fits?Choosing a maths app for an iPad class in primary school: logging in on shared devices, browser or app, and an overview for the teacher. Maths app for grade 2: keeping track of where the class standsWhich maths app for grade 2 shows the teacher where the class stands, which topics matter in grade 2 and how the overview helps in lessons. Maths support in lessons without creating extra materialHow teachers can support children in maths during regular lessons without making their own material, with examples for grades 2 and 3 and ready-made aids.

Who is behind Mazio Math? Provider, origins and fundingWho provides Mazio Maths, how the platform is developed and funded, and how schools can check the information on data protection and impact themselves.

Spotting dyscalculia early: signs and support for teachersHow teachers in grades 1 and 2 can spot early signs of difficulties with arithmetic, what helps in lessons and when a specialist assessment is needed.

What a million completed tasks reveal about good maths tasksOne task becomes 17,825 variants, errors follow stable patterns like adding instead of multiplying, and tasks are never finished: what a million attempts show.