Run by the National Day Nurseries Association, Maths Champions is a one-year programme led by a graduate practitioner in each nursery.
Academics from York and Durham universities worked with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to evaluate the programme, which was delivered in 108 nurseries to 628 children between May 2016 and August 2017.
The EEF funded the programme because children’s early maths ability is linked with attainment in maths and other subjects later in life, and because maths is an area that many early years settings struggle with, and where the gap between disadvantaged children and their peers is particularly large.
Prior to the rollout of this project, NDNA worked with Oxford University to carry out an audit of the scheme.
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