Shown, never just told
Three rows of four build themselves. A child sees why it is twelve before anyone says the word multiply.
Reception to Year 6 · built to the English curriculum
Ten ones stacking into a ten. A cake coming apart into halves. A clock hand going round to half past. Every idea in primary maths is a thing your child moves before it is ever a number they write — because that is how it stops being a rule to remember.
ten ones make one ten
The part nobody else does
A Year 4 child stuck on column multiplication is usually not stuck on column multiplication. When practice keeps failing, we stop drilling and walk down through what that skill stands on, until we find the block that is missing — then rebuild from there.
the gap is three years below where they were stuck
Three rows of four build themselves. A child sees why it is twelve before anyone says the word multiply.
No score, no red cross, nothing that drops. A question simply stays open until they get there, with the method shown. And we never call an answer right when it is not.
A short note each week in plain English: we went back to number bonds, because that is what column addition stands on.
No login for them, no real name, no date of birth. You hold the account; they just play.