Welcome to the Maths Recovery Council
Maths Recovery is a system of diagnostic interview assessments and teaching based on a clear understanding of the conceptual stages by which young children acquire knowledge and understanding of number. The rigour of the knowledge that underpins Maths Recovery allows teachers to make classroom learning and teaching more effective at all ages. It is very useful for 'recovering' children who are failing to grasp number, and it also can be used to develop number knowledge and strategies in average and able children. It is not limited just to the early years of learning, nor to one-to-one teaching. The teaching principles can be applied group settings and whole classes.
The strength of the programme is its ability to comprehensively assess children's early numerical knowledge and strategies. The assessment covers children's counting strategies; their knowledge of number words and sequences; their ability to reason in terms of tens and ones; and their developing strategies for multiplication and division.
Professional development in the Maths Recovery Programme prepares teachers to approach mathematics instruction in a new way. It emphasises ongoing assessment, careful observation, gauging student's current knowledge and strategies, and building on them to increase the student's knowledge, ability and self-confidence in maths. It also engages teacher reflection through the use of videotape of both the assessment interviews and the teaching.
To sum, the Maths Recovery Programme has the potential to alter the numeracy teaching environment of an entire school and to open up mathematics and numeracy as a subject in which low attaining children can make genuine and authentic progress throughout their school careers