Fluency Booster, our brand new adaptive maths fluency practice tool, is now available! Designed to help consolidate core number skills and build maths fluency with ongoing, varied practice, Fluency Booster ensures children develop a strong foundation in number skills.
We recommend using it for 30 minutes per week to reinforce learning effectively.
What is Fluency Booster?
Maths fluency is about developing number sense and the ability to use strategies accurately and efficiently, while also being flexible and able to apply those strategies in different contexts.
Fluency Booster is an adaptive practice tool focused on core number skills. It helps students develop fluency through structured, engaging, and varied practice. Instead of relying solely on memorisation, it builds number sense, strengthens relationships between numbers, and develops flexible problem-solving strategies.
With the introduction of Fluency Booster, when children are working on Sumdog-assigned questions rather than work a parent has set, they will be working on Fluency.
Skills Covered
Fluency Booster focuses learning on foundational number skills, specifically:
✔️ Number & Place Value
✔️ Counting and Number Patterns
✔️ Number Bonds & Relationships
✔️ Arithmetic
It does not include:
❌ Geometry
❌ Measurement
❌ Statistics
❌ Word Problems or Applied Maths Questions
Parents will still be able to set work on these areas of maths, and on KS3/Third and Fourth Level/Grades 6-8, as previously.
While Fluency Booster is designed for younger students, it offers more complex number skills suitable for older students who need to consolidate core number fluency.
What Will Change?
For Parents:
- The Reports section now tracks progress across both Set Work and Fluency Booster:
- The Sumdog assigned skill on the home page will be taken from Fluency Booster
- Proficiency chart will track performance in Fluency Booster
- Current level and Skills completed in the Family Summary report will report on progress in Fluency Booster
- The Set Work section remains unchanged.
- Diagnostic functionality also remains unchanged and will not need to be reset because of this update - although we always encourage regular resets anyway.
For Children:
- The ‘Maths Training’ feature has been replaced by ‘Fluency Booster’.
- Children will now focus on mastering up to 5 skills at once rather than just one.
- Faster skill mastery allows children to progress more efficiently.
Need Help?
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to our support team at support@sumdog.com