This is to inform you that, from 31st October 2026, the Broadbent Maths website is closing and will no longer be available online.
Please download any of the resources on the site that you use in your school - you are free to continue using them in the future. We are giving you 4 months’ notice of the closure to allow you time to save any files you need.
The reason for closing Broadbent Maths online is that Paul is reducing his workload as he nears retirement.
A message from Paul:
It has been an amazing 14 years, with the website supporting thousands of teachers with their maths planning and teaching. I have enjoyed sharing my ideas and expertise with teachers and giving guidance to schools.
I hope the Broadbent Maths site has been of value to you. Do continue to use any the resources even after the closure of the site - just remember to download and store them before the end of October.
We hope you have enjoyed using Broadbent Maths, it gained a far greater number of subscribers than we ever expected which was very rewarding.
We wish your schools, teacher and students well for the future.
Please download any of the resources on the site that you use in your school - you are free to continue using them in the future. We are giving you 4 months’ notice of the closure to allow you time to save any files you need.
The reason for closing Broadbent Maths online is that Paul is reducing his workload as he nears retirement.
A message from Paul:
It has been an amazing 14 years, with the website supporting thousands of teachers with their maths planning and teaching. I have enjoyed sharing my ideas and expertise with teachers and giving guidance to schools.
I hope the Broadbent Maths site has been of value to you. Do continue to use any the resources even after the closure of the site - just remember to download and store them before the end of October.
We hope you have enjoyed using Broadbent Maths, it gained a far greater number of subscribers than we ever expected which was very rewarding.
We wish your schools, teacher and students well for the future.
Addition and subtraction: exploring complements
The visual representation of balanced mobiles is a great way to explore the complements of sets of numbers. Children need to be able to quickly recall the complements of 10, 100 and 1000 as well as the decade numbers to give them mental agility when calculating. Mobiles are also useful for practicing complementary addition to work out the difference between two numbers. This challenge to balance the mobile is open ended and is a great starting point that can be accessed by all abilities before progressing in complexity.
Primary maths Christmas activities
Here are a few Christmas maths activities to try with your class - 5 great starting points for investigation and a handful of 10-minute stocking fillers. They will provide children with valuable opportunities for maths learning along with some Christmas festive fun.
Enlarging shapes to explore their properties
A good way for children to understand the properties of polygons is to construct them precisely and accurately. Using a sharp pencil, a ruler and a protractor to draw and measure different shapes, they can then compare and ask questions about them. One issue with this for teachers is that progression in geometry is not clear, often because of the difficulty in breaking down the broad statements in the NC Programmes of Study. My Small Steps of Progression for geometry may help, which is followed by an 'enlarging shapes' activity.
What do teachers think?
We are all fully Broadbent Maths now and everyone is finding it good to work from and more beneficial to children, building their skills, knowledge and understanding cumulatively and with more breadth. We had a deep dive in maths during our inspection and it came out as a strength.Headteacher, Cornwall
I am blown away by these resources, they are utterly brilliant, as is the excellent customer care. Highly recommend!
EY Teacher, Barcelona
Maths Subject Leader, North London
I used Broadbent Maths at my previous school. I now have a headship and subscribed to your site (of course!)
Headteacher, Northumberland
Headteacher, Northumberland
