New digital diagnostic tool to identify specific barriers to maths learning

SNAP Maths is a brand-new digital assessment allowing you to assess pupils with suspected maths learning difficulties/dyscalculia and maths anxiety, to provide support through targeted interventions.

Assess - Identify pupils who are showing signs of maths learning difficulties/dyscalculia through 10 on-screen activities and three questionnaires (Pupil, Parent/Carer and Teacher).
Plan - Generate a Core Profile and a Questionnaire Profile of a pupil's strengths and weaknesses.
Do - Assign Fluency Boosters (short on-screen practice sessions) and/or choose from a large bank of tailored school strategies.
Review - Monitor progress, including attitudes and emotional response to maths, by re-assigning the questionnaires, or track progress using the Fluency Booster graphs, if assigned.

What does SNAP Maths assess?

Key features

On-screen activities

10 standardised on-screen activities measure a learner's ability in a range of numerical and cognitive skills.

Questionnaires

Three questionnaires (teacher, parent/carer and pupil) help you to build a holistic picture of why a pupil might be struggling with maths, through questions about a pupil’s informally and formally taught maths skills and their emotional response to maths.

Fluency Boosters

Four Fluency Boosters provide intensive practice in the areas of Counting, Comparing numbers, Subitising and Number relations through short, 5-minute sessions pupils complete on a computer or tablet.

Reports

Once a learner has completed the 10 activities, SNAP produces different types of feedback. Core Profile: Displays a learner's results for each of the 10 activities as age-standardised scores for accuracy and fluency. Questionnaire Profile: Reports the questionnaire outcomes as bar charts, with an average score calculated for each of the questions covered. Home reports: Include advice and activities so parents/carers can help their child at home.

Information sheets and supporting documents

Information sheets help both teachers and parents/carers develop a better understanding of the difficulties shown by a learner's Core Profile and Questionnaire Profile.

Strategies

Alongside the Fluency Boosters, SNAP Maths provides a bank of targeted School Strategies that can be put in place to support learners, with some being appropriate for use across multiple difficulties.

SNAP Maths provides a way of assessing a number of children quickly over a range of key skills. It requires the children to show their understanding independently.

Boarshaw Primary School (Trial School)

SNAP Maths helps to spot barriers to learning earlier so we can help learners as they move through year groups.

Parmiter's School (Trial school)

SNAP Maths is a game changer for identifying specific learning needs and then taking steps to help children improve their fluency in important building blocks for good numeracy.

Thomas Mills High School (Trial school)

It's a tool that... provide[s] teachers with valuable assessment data without increasing their workload.

Victoria Primary Academy (Trial school)

About the authors

Judy Hornigold

Judy is an independent education consultant specialising in dyslexia and dyscalculia and an Associate Tutor for the BDA and Edge Hill University. Judy is a primary-trained teacher and a qualified specialist teacher of dyslexia. She’s written two books of ready-made lessons for learners with dyscalculia.

Charles Weedon

Charles taught maths and English before focussing on learning difficulties and supporting special needs. His Master’s and Doctoral degrees explored the nature of learning difficulties, and he has been an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University and a Visiting Scholar at Stirling. He is a registered Practitioner Educational Psychologist, and his published work has focussed upon understanding and assessing learning difficulties.

Jonathan Weedon

Jonathan has over ten years of experience as a primary educator and has a particular interest in the use of Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) approaches to support learning in maths, and in the use of digital technology to enhance learning.

Alongside co-authoring SNAP Maths, he is currently working as a Numeracy Development Lead for his Local Authority in Midlothian, focusing on curriculum development, and supporting teachers and schools to implement evidence-based pedagogical approaches to teaching maths.

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