Steps to Mastery - Maths Starter

Build fluency, deepen understanding and develop mathematical thinking with these ready-to-use Steps to Mastery lesson starters. Designed to be used at the beginning of a maths lesson, each slide follows a consistent structure to revisit prior learning, encourage reasoning and prepare pupils for new learning.

This resource includes a half-term of editable lesson starters, with every slide containing three carefully planned sections:

Fluency – Recall and practise key mathematical skills.
Variation – Apply knowledge in different ways to strengthen understanding.
Mathematical Thinking – Reason, explain, justify and solve challenging problems.

Questions are carefully sequenced to promote retrieval, expose misconceptions and develop mastery through discussion and reasoning. The familiar format allows pupils to focus on the mathematics while providing teachers with an effective assessment opportunity at the start of every lesson.

Perfect for:

Daily maths lesson starters
Retrieval practice
Developing fluency and reasoning
Whole-class discussion
Assessment for learning
Key Stage 2 maths lessons