Designed for struggling learners rather than beginner learners
15-minute sessions, twice a week
Delivered by teaching assistants, teachers or mentors
Grounded in rigorous academic research
Available in Welsh medium
Catch Up® Numeracy is a structured one-to-one intervention for learners who find numeracy difficult. It enables learners who struggle with numeracy to achieve more than double the progress of typically developing learners.
Catch Up® Numeracy involves 15-minute individual sessions delivered twice a week. It is grounded in academic research and addresses 10 key components of numeracy:
Counting verbally
Counting objects
Reading and writing
Hundreds, tens and ones
Estimation
Word problems
Translation
Remembered facts
Derived facts
Ordinal numbers
It is suitable for all struggling learners whose Number Age is significantly below their Chronological Age and is designed for use with struggling learners rather than beginner learners.
Learners on Catch Up® Numeracy achieve more than double the progress of typically developing learners.
Learners aged 6 - 11 who received Catch Up® Numeracy support for an average period of 5 months achieved average Number/Maths Age gains of 11 months (a mean ratio gain* of 2.2).
(Data for 348 learners. Journal article awaiting publication - further information from Catch Up®, on request.)
Learners in Years 7 - 10 who received Catch Up® Numeracy support for an average period of 5 months achieved average Number/Maths Age gains of 15 months (a mean ratio gain of 3.0).
(Further information from Catch Up®, on request.)
* A ratio gain of 2 or more is considered ‘good impact’ (Brooks, 2004)
Catch Up® Numeracy has impact beyond numeracy skills
After only 3 months of Catch Up® Numeracy, learners:
became more self-confident and motivated in class
felt more in control of their learning
felt more confident to work independently
displayed a much improved attitude towards numeracy
Catch Up® Numeracy - success stories
Joe, aged 12
Joe started Catch Up® Numeracy with a gap of 5 years 4 months between his Chronological Age and Number Age. He was very insecure with his own maths ability.
Although he would look at or listen to instructions, he wouldn’t even attempt to answer the question if he didn’t understand, using ‘I don’t know’ very frequently.
After 4.5 months of Catch Up® Numeracy, Joe had made 36 months progress in his Number/Maths Age.
TIME ON INTERVENTION: 4.5 months
NUMBER AGE GAIN: 36 months
Lillias, aged 8
8-year-old Lillias had a Number/Maths Age of 7.0 years when she started taking part in Catch Up® Numeracy. She was quiet and withdrawn in class and it did not take much for her to dissolve into tears. She was increasingly frustrated with herself and thought everybody else could 'just do it'.
After 11 months of Catch Up® Numeracy support, Lillias had made 2 years progress in her Number/Maths Age.
TIME ON INTERVENTION: 11 months
NUMBER AGE GAIN: 24 months
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