These programmes and workshops have been designed to enable Maths on Toast to help and support partner organisations and practitioners to offer regular, positive and meaningful engagements with maths in a hands-on, accessible, family-friendly and fun way. By learning our approach, practitioners can simply and confidently use the resources and guidance provided – potentially resulting in more practitioner time available for delivery, as less time is needed on research and development of resources.
Maths on Toast activities are designed to inspire, engage, and encourage exploration – this can be a very different way of doing maths for many families and communities and this approach is effective in engaging even the most reluctant maths learners. Positive learning experiences will be key in aiding post-Covid engagement and these programmes offer access to wider learning opportunities and skills-building that can tend to be overlooked when everyone is focused on ‘catch-up’.
Maths on Toast ‘Community Champion’ Programmes
The Maths on Toast Community Champion Programme provides in-depth training and monthly resources and guidance to empower and enable community and family educators and staff in schools to run hands-on Maths on Toast sessions in their own setting as accredited Maths on Toast Champions. This resource programme is designed to inspire work with all with families, including also those who may be more apprehensive or reluctant to engage with maths or with learning. Family maths evaluation tools and community champion practitioner catch-ups are part of the programme.
The Maths on Toast Family Maths in Schools Programme provides the same in-depth training and this programme is accompanied by a comprehensive set of resources to run 4-week programmes with families – parents and their children – in schools as accredited Maths on Toast Champions. This programme suits educators wishing to work with parents who are ready to engage and learn more about how they can support and encourage a love of maths at home. Family maths evaluation tools and community champion practitioner catch-ups are part of the programme.
*Please note, Multiply funding can be used by local authorities to offer family learning programmes – gaining both the benefit of the family learning itself, and the potential for family maths engagement to act as a motivator for parents to access further adult numeracy training opportunities. Read our case study about running training programmes in Scotland with Multiply Funding.
Maths on Toast Community Champion training helps and supports partner organisations and practitioners to offer regular, positive and meaningful engagements with maths in a hands-on, accessible, family-friendly and fun way. By learning our approach, practitioners can simply and confidently use the resources and guidance provided – potentially resulting in more practitioner time available for delivery, as less time is needed on research and development of resources.
The training provides practitioners with the knowledge, skills and confidence to support families with maths in their own settings using the Maths on Toast toolkit, to include:
- 5 Key Principles underpinning the Maths on Toast approach
- Maths on Toast Confidence Loop
- The Toast Model for understanding and supporting feelings
- Sample Maths on Toast activities
- A pack of Number Rumbler – Maths on Toast’s award winning card game designed to develop
number sense and practise times tables
Maths on Toast activities are designed to inspire, engage, and encourage exploration – this can be a very
different way of doing maths for many families and communities and this approach is effective in engaging even the most reluctant maths learners.
For more information about this training programme, please email info@mathsontoast.org.uk.
Corporate Volunteer Programmes
The Maths on Toast Corporate Volunteer Programme is for education business partnerships and/or corporate organisations running additional support schemes in schools. Our package of training and resources has been developed for use in primary schools keen to inspire a love of maths in pupils and develop wider maths skills and thinking. Read a case study here. For full details on the corporate volunteers programme please click here