Five years of additional development time
in classrooms with exceptional feedback and results in Australian primary schools - see our research basis and results page.
Free to download (newly released) lesson samples
to trial in your classroom
This is a planning package that comprehensively supports Years 3-6 teachers. There are 50 units organised by content level and concept, with a specific learning intention for each unit.
Each unit starts with direct links to the Australian Curriculum Version 9 (for QLD, SA, Tasmania and the NT), Victorian Curriculum 2.0, the Western Australian Curriculum (which will include a free update for WA schools joining in Term 3/4 this year, once SCSA releases the final version of the new WA Curriculum later this year), and the new NSW Syllabus for K-2 and 3-6.
Units are 70-250 pages with warm-ups/spaced retrieval tasks, explicit teaching and concrete modelling of sequential lessons that are engaging for students, with pre-planned differentiation options, including:
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learning intentions, maths vocabulary and formative success criteria
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in-classroom photographs of modelling and detailed student work samples photographs
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misconception alerts, immediate feedback tips and questioning prompts.
Every lesson includes comprehensive pre-planned enabling and extending prompts for daily in-class support and extension to cater for wide ranges in one classroom.
These are short extracts only (small portions of a range of units for samples, rather than complete units).
Please note: Almost all hyperlinks and template links will not work within these samples, as these are linked for exclusive access to schools that have purchased the entire planning package.
Multiplication lessons - less than 2% of the full sequential multiplication unit content
(10 Multiplication Units averaging over 120 pages each in the multiplicative thinking sequence for Years 3-6)
Multiplicative strategies student anchor chart
Doubling strategy for x2, x4 and x8
(Year 3/4 -
1 of 6 lessons in Multiplication Unit 2)
Connecting
multiplication
to division and fractions
(Year 4 with extending prompts to Year 5/6 level)
Fractions lessons - less than 10% of the full sequential fractions unit content
(10 Fractions Units, averaging over 150 pages each in the sequence for Years 3-6)
Real-life representations
for fractions and
counting by fractions
(Year 3/4 -
4 of 9 lessons in
Fractions Unit 2)
Understanding
equivalence
(Year 3/4 -
2 of 7 lessons in
Fractions Unit 3)
Converting fractions to percentages and decimals (Year 5/6 - 2 of 7 lessons in Fractions Unit 7)
Subtraction Unit 4 - Difference between (Year 3/4 - majority of the unit - Subtraction Unit 4)
Teaching tips only for the Subtraction Transformation Strategy (the rest of Unit 5 is exclusive to member schools)
Subtraction
Mental Strategies
and Estimation
Think Board
Subtraction unit extracts - less than 15% of the full sequential subtraction unit content
(8 Subtraction Units averaging over 100 pages each in the sequence for Years 3-6)
Other unit extracts - less than 1% of the place value, extension and problem-solving content
Decimals for Year 5 (1 lesson of 9 for Year 5
Decimals)
Multiplying Fractions
(Year 7 Extension Unit - 1 of 6 lessons in Multiplication
Unit 10)
Worded multi-step problems - This set is linked to Subtraction Unit 4, there are 50 sets in total (one linked set for every unit)
Please note: All complete units (not the sample extracts above) start with direct curriculum links to Australian Curriculum Version 9, Victorian Curriculum Version 2.0, WA Curriculum (new 2026 version once finalised),
and the new NSW Syllabus for Stage 2 and Stage 3.
Please note: Almost all hyperlinks in these samples will not work, as the above documents are online extracts and do not include the hyperlinked templates; or diagnostic, formative and summative assessments that are all included in the complete package.
New Years 3-6 Planning Package
50 explicit teaching units developed in Australian classrooms for more than five years by Australian numeracy coaches, with amongst the highest on-record student gain results in NAPLAN for Years 3-5 matched cohorts:
Packages to support your teams
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50 brand new comprehensive unit plans - triple the size of our Early Years Package. The package includes over 500 brand new developmentally-sequenced lessons and warm-ups. These unit plans assist teams throughout the entire year of teaching, building four sequential years of learning.
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Detailed extending prompts catering for advanced students who have already mastered the main content, pushing into early secondary content but also into deep and challenging problems, including over 200 multi-step worded problems linked to each unit plan.
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Over 4000 photographs of explicit classroom modelling and lessons-in-action in Australian classrooms that provide teams with an in-depth insight into how to deliver each session with success. Detailed student work sample photographs also provide worked examples of what excellent mathematical recording looks like for each lesson, with students using materials and recording their working out throughout every task.
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Diagnostic, formative and growth-based assessments that require students to reason, use efficient mental strategies and show working out (not just provide answers). The linked spreadsheets with formulas pinpoint both whole cohort and individual student's critical developmental gaps and next points-of-need (ZPD). This provides teachers with a clear pathway to act on this data, including linked unit plans for every assessment question. All assessments include answer guides and test A-D versions for use over multiple years.
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All lessons include engaging hooks; photographs of explicit teaching using materials and student work samples; scaffolded enabling and challenging extending prompts for daily in-class intervention and extension to cater for wide ranges in the one classroom.
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Over 100 new warm-ups, all integrated into each unit, with a focus on flexible mental strategies and building fluency, after understanding and reasoning have been consolidated.
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Professional readings summaries and practical classroom tips at the start of every unit.
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Every lesson plan includes misconception alerts, questioning prompts, immediate feedback tips, as well as detailed teaching tips.
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Scope and sequences for straight, composite and multi-age settings with easy-to-follow unit timings on a week-by-week basis throughout the year, mathematical vocabulary anchor charts, unit launches and more inclusions to support each year 3-6 team's comprehensive year (and all years going forward) of hands-on, real-life, sequential mathematics.