Case studies

Multiply is a government funded programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This includes family numeracy programmes and courses for parents wanting to increase their skills in order to help their children. Over the past year, organisations in Scotland have used their Multiply funding to train their practitioners in the Maths on Toast Approach. […]

Following on from a successful pilot in 2019 – and after a long hiatus due to Covid-19 – we were delighted to be able to finally pick up our partnership with The Switch (formerly Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership).   The Switch’s Number Partners programme recruits corporate volunteers to run weekly lunchtime maths sessions in primary […]

The Covid-19 pandemic meant we had to pause our usual face-to-face community sessions. So we adapted the way we work to ensure we continue to support as many families as possible to feel positive, empowered and inspired about maths. We worked with community groups across Camden, Islington and Brent to provide them with printed activity […]

Following on from a successful pilot in 2019, we started delivery of Maths on Toast ‘coffee mornings’ in schools in Camden and Tower Hamlets. Our aim is to bring parents and their children together in a friendly, fun environment to discover and explore creative maths together. Trying the hands-on activities, having fun and learning together helps to increase confidence […]

Our free monthly library sessions offer families the opportunity to get creative with maths. With a new theme every month – from building a rocket to designing a piece of maths-inspired jewellery – these hands-on workshops show children and their adults a different way of viewing maths. Our aim is for everyone to leave feeling positive about maths, ready to take […]

Maths on Toast Bites is a series of short ‘How To’ creative maths videos presented by children aged between 8 and 11. Aimed at primary school children and their families, our group of enthusiastic ‘maths advocates’ demonstrates a range of fun, hands-on maths activities that families can try together. Our mission is to promote positive attitudes to maths. Maths on Toast Bites will […]

Since 2017 in partnership with the NSPCC, we have provided specially adapted resources to their Number Day, where thousands of schools join together for a maths-inspired fundraising day to raise money to go towards supporting the work of the NSPCC.  It is important for us to be able to support the NSPCC as well as […]

In 2017 we conducted a collaborative Research & Development project with the London South East Maths Hub. This took Festival of Triangles from a straightforward ‘enrichment’ project, which our team delivered for a school, to something that a teacher could deliver without our direct support. During the project, we worked with five primary schools in […]

Back in the spring of 2015 Maths on Toast worked with families in Camden, London to devise a fun maths game that supported understanding of multiplication. In the autumn of 2015 we crowdfunded the result – Number Rumbler – the number sense maths toy. 280 people backed the STEM game, whether by buying advance copies […]

During the autumn of 2014, we ran a series of family maths events at Bletchley Park.  As well as Festival of Triangles, we created two new events: ‘Codes and Conundrums’ and ‘Playing Games’. The events were really successful, attracting over 350 people in total, and received highly positive feedback. After the event, several families reported […]

In 2014 we were approached by the Imperial War Museums to develop a series of activities on the ‘Secret Maths of Spies’, to run during the February 2014 half term on HMS Belfast. Building on the success of the initial week of events, we further developed the activities to include a ‘D-Day’ theme, enabling HMS […]