Practical classroom support, mapped for teaching maths in England
LTD connects statutory curriculum expectations with the smaller ideas, representations and experiences that help pupils understand them. Teachers can move from the curriculum overview to a sequenced lesson, modelled video, hands-on task and independent application.
Show a curriculum mapping document beside a connected LTD lesson. Do not use flags, landmarks or generic national imagery.
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Reception to Year 6
Reception content is organised with the Early Years Foundation Stage in mind, with strong attention to number, numerical patterns, mathematical language, spatial reasoning and meaningful play-based and teacher-guided experiences.
Year 1 to Year 6 content is mapped to the National Curriculum in England. Year-group pages make the statutory content easier to navigate and connect it with relevant LTD lessons and assessment.
The three aims remain connected
LTD does not treat fluency, reasoning and problem solving as three separate lessons. They are developed together through the questions, representations and tasks within a sequence.
Fluency: Build efficient and increasingly accurate methods through relationships, strategies and well-designed practice.
Reasoning: Ask pupils to describe, justify, compare, generalise and use representations to support their thinking.
Problem solving: Give pupils opportunities to select ideas and strategies in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
How the mapping works
Each curriculum statement will link to one or more relevant LTD lessons. The mapping should also identify where a lesson provides prerequisite understanding, practice or extension rather than claiming a direct match where one does not exist.
Teachers should be able to search from either direction: start with the curriculum statement and find lessons, or start with an LTD topic and see the curriculum connections.
Suggested planning pathway
1. Begin with the yearly overview
See the suggested order of topics and the main ideas developed across the year.
2. Review the topic progression
Check the prior knowledge, lesson sequence and links with other areas of mathematics.
3. Use assessment to refine the starting point
Identify whether pupils are ready for the planned sequence or need an earlier concept revisited.
4. Select and adapt the lessons
Use the modelled video, plan and resources to prepare, then adjust examples and pacing for the class.
5. Review understanding
Use pupil discussion, independent work and concept check-ups to decide the next step.
Support for school curriculum design
Schools can use LTD as a complete teaching framework or integrate selected content with an existing scheme. The planning documents support a coherent whole-school approach while leaving leaders responsible for the final curriculum design and local decisions.
Implementation support can help staff agree on expectations, use key representations consistently and connect assessment findings with teaching.
Downloadable documents
- Reception overview
- Year 1 to Year 6 yearly overviews
- Key Stage 1 overview
- Key Stage 2 overview
- Whole-school scope and sequence
- Topic progressions
- Curriculum statement to lesson mapping
- Mixed-age planning documents where available
A four-stage diagram showing National Curriculum statement, smaller conceptual steps, LTD lesson sequence and assessment connection.
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