The Education Endowment Foundation evaluated Maths Champions, a low-cost professional development programme designed to support young children’s early numeracy.
The one-year programme, developed and delivered by the National Day Nurseries Association, supports early years providers to improve their maths provision by nominating a senior member of existing staff as a ‘Maths Champion’ to undertake training and support colleagues to develop their maths teaching practice, alongside a ‘Deputy Maths Champion’ to support their work.
More than 1,300 children from 134 early years settings (private, voluntary and independent and school-based nursery settings) took part in the trial, which ran from September 2021 to July 2022. Children’s development was measured using the Assessment Profile on Entry for Children and Toddlers (ASPECTS) maths score. It found that
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