Why Maths My Way

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How it works

What Teachers are saying

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Simplify your day with Maths My Way!

Maths My Way is Folens new Primary Maths Programme for JI – 6th that is fully aligned to the new Primary Maths Curriculum.

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Components

Student Book

Fluency Book

Daily Teaching Slides

Digital Resources

Teacher Planning

Assessment

Student Book

Rich, high quality student books help children engage more deeply with mathematical concepts.

  • Number Practice book for Infants for additional consolidation of the Number strand
  • Spacious and clearly organised pages make it easy for children to follow
  • Hands-on activities and games support playful learning
  • Cognitively challenging tasks develop reasoning and problem-solving skills
  • Low-threshold, high-ceiling tasks support all children in going deeper
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Fluency Book

The structured Fluency Book offers children additional opportunities for consolidation and practice, reinforcing their learning effectively.

  • Two pages per unit to provide targeted fluency practice
  • Daily activity breakdown for seamless homework assignments
  • Aligned with pupil book learning outcomes, ensuring consistency and reinforcement

Daily Teaching Slides

The Daily Teaching Slides contain everything you need to teach a lesson.   

The slides: 

  • Provide interactive manipulatives from Polypad (Mathigon) 
  • Model and step through explanations  
  • Support Maths Talk 
  • Scaffold the student book activities 
  • Suggest hands-on and extension activities  
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Digital Resources

Maths My Way is accompanied by a wealth of digital resources including: 

  • eBooks 
  • Games (including Planet Maths games) 
  • Animated tutorials for maths modelling 
  • Maths Eyes posters 
  • Real-life videos 
  • Animated songs and rhymes 
  • Printables  
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Teacher Planning

The Maths My Way planning contains everything you need to effortlessly plan your maths lessons. It includes the following:   

  • Yearly plan 
  • Unit plans 
  • Fortnightly plans 

*All planning is online and fully editable!

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Assessment

Maths My Way has additional printable worksheets as well as four editable termly assessments available online.

  • Halloween Termly Assessment
  • Christmas Termly Assessment
  • Summer Termly Assessment
  • Easter Termly Assessment
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How Maths My Way Works

Maths My Way is highly structured, making it easy for you to plan and teach:

  • 32 units of work for each class – 1 unit per week
  • Four flexible lessons in every unit, each with a clear focus 
  • A set of Teaching Slides and one book page for every lesson 
  • Two practice pages at the end of each unit 

What Teachers Are Saying

"It's really well organized and well laid out and really engaging for the pupils with lots of opportunities for them to demonstrate their thinking and understanding."

Kevin O Sullivan, 1st Class Teacher - Scoil Mhuire, Ballymany Newbridge, Co. Kildare

What Teachers Are Saying

"I would highly recommend Maths My Way. It has been a game changer in my classroom. Maths My Way has been helpful to encourage meaningful maths talk in my classroom. Overall, it is an effective and enjoyable maths program that I would recommend to any other teacher."

Kevin O'Leary, 2nd Class Teacher - Bunscoil Loreto, Gorey, Co. Wexford

What Teachers are saying

"Maths My Way has revolutionised my teaching of numeracy in the classroom. It poses questions that allow for individual thinking which makes for interesting discussions each day where we can learn from one another. The online resources are bright, extensive and simple to follow. The book itself presents challenges in a new, engaging way which I find motivates the children like I haven’t seen before."

Ellen Hahessy, Senior Infants Teacher - Limerick Educate Together NS

What Teachers are saying

"The opportunities and guidance about which hands-on manipulatives you can use really complement the learning slides to go with each day’s lesson. Maths My Way gives every child the opportunity to achieve success in maths."

Bernie Riordan, 2nd Class Teacher - Limerick Educate Together NS

What Teachers are saying

"The daily slides are really engaging, offer many opportunities for Maths Talk and lots of real-life examples. The pupils’ knowledge and maths language has grown significantly in the short time we have been using the programme. We plan to roll out Maths My Way in 3rd-6th Class when it is launched."

Rathnure NS, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford 

 

What Teachers are saying

"Maths My Way offers fantastic online resources that are both engaging and meaningful. The Teacher Manual is exceptionally well organised, providing clear daily and weekly plans along with creative ideas for station teaching. Every aspect of the new curriculum is thoroughly covered making this programme a must-have for every classroom!"

Anne Marie Casey, Junior Infants Teacher - Convent of Mercy, Newport, Co. Tipperary 

 

Lead Authors

Our programme is crafted by experienced educators with a deep understanding of mathematics education

  • Patrick Neary

    An experienced primary teacher with an M.Ed., specialising in Mathematics Education. Patrick lectures in Maths part-time in DCU and has worked closely with Maths4All to promote best practice in Maths Education.

  • Elaine Dillon

    An experienced primary teacher with a M.Ed. from Maynooth University, where her thesis focused on exploring an effective use of play in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Elaine is an active participant and contributor to Maths4All.

  • Grace Lynch

    An experienced primary teacher with an M.Ed., specialising in Mathematics Education. Grace has supervised undergraduate dissertations for students specialising in Mathematics Education in Marino Institute.

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