How To Use The Third Space Maths Hub For Free And Premium Members

“I can’t believe I’ve only just found these! Great maths revision resources, and loads more, perfect to dip into for quick daily openers.”  –Kate Evans via Twitter @ThatKateEvans

Here at Third Space Learning our mission is to help schools close the maths attainment gap through one to one tutoring. As part of a whole school approach, we also provide teachers with high-quality maths tools and resources to save them time

Schools signed up for personalised one-to-one online tutoring for their target pupils also have access to the Third Space Learning Maths Hub, an online library of hundreds of flexible, curriculum-aligned maths resources, leadership support guides and CPD.  

But if you’re new to Third Space Learning, or haven’t used the Maths Hub yet it can be a little hard to know how to get the best out of it, especially with the wealth of resources available! So, we’ve put together this introduction to the Maths Hub to help you get started.

“Big thanks for sending me Fluent in Five up to week 18. My staff use them every day, and they are making a difference to children’s fluency – thank you!” – Claire Mackenzie, Headteacher 

Here’s your step-by-step guide to what’s in the Maths Hub and how to use it.

How does the Third Space Maths Hub work?

Our online maths hub is a collection of expertly designed primary maths resources, including: 

• Worksheets 
• Assessments 
• Games and Activities
• Intervention resources
• SATs preparation and practice papers
• School leader guides
• Whole class teaching resources

Many of these high-quality resources are available for free. Simply sign up with your email address and school name to access hundreds of free maths resources. But to get the most out of the Maths Hub, you’ll need a premium subscription. 

There are two ways to get premium access: 

1. Membership is included free as part of our one-to-one intervention programmes
2. A whole school premium subscription 

Once a school registers for premium access, every school staff member l has access to the full suite of Maths Hub materials at no extra cost so your whole teaching staff can directly access our resources quickly and easily. 

If your school is already signed up to one of our options for premium access or you have a free account, simply click the log in button to get started. 

For those new to the Maths Hub or without a premium school subscription, you can still register for free. 

You can download the free resources, access the daily challenge and discover the additional resources available to schools with premium access.

Switch between all resources and the ‘Free to me’ resources using the tab. 

Why register for the Maths Hub?

New resources are regularly added to the Maths Hub for both free and premium users, and old content is updated to keep up with the most up-to-date pedagogies and teaching strategies. 

Primary maths experts design all resources to help educators improve their pupils’ maths skills using a mastery approach.

How to find specific resources in the Maths Hub

Once you are logged into the Maths Hub, you can jump to a category using the navigation bar, or view all primary resources.

You can also filter resources by: 

• Year group
• Topic
• Category
• Collection 

Once you’ve found the resource you want, select download to add the resource straight to your computer. 

Jump straight to the daily maths challenges for UKS2 and LKS2 to use as a morning starter, maths starter or after-lunch activity.

Or explore the video section for a range of CPD videos to use during staff meetings or independently. 

If you get stuck at any point, our helpful customer service team is on hand to help out. Just call 0203 771 0095 or email [email protected]

What resources are in the Third Space Maths Hub?

“I love the Third Space Learning resources because they are well presented, visually appealing and the topic matter is linked to mastery in the new maths curriculum – meaning I don’t have to search for new resources.” – Rachel P, Victoria Academy, Teacher

With thousands of resources to choose from, there’s something to meet everyone’s needs. 

Here are some of our most popular resources: 

• Fluent in Five
• Rapid Reasoning
• Worked Examples
• SATs Practice Papers
• Diagnostic Assessments
• Ready-to-Go Lesson Slides
• Word Problems

Fluent in Five

One of our most popular resources, Fluent in Five provides short daily activities for Years 1-6 designed to improve fluency of mental and written arithmetic. 

Each Fluent in Five activity is linked to a clear progression document explaining how the activity helps pupils progress.

Every Fluent in Five resource includes:

• A user guide
• Pedagogical background 
• Question slides 
•  Answer slides
• Printable worksheets

Activities for Years 1, 3 & 4 aim to help pupils identify whether the mental or written method might be most efficient for answering a given question.  Activities for years 2 and 5 & 6 have a similar goal, but place this in the context of SATS-style questions to help pupils prepare.

Free Maths Hub users can access Fluent in Five activities for all year groups for Weeks 1 to 6. Premium users can download Fluent in Five for the full 36 week academic year.

Rapid Reasoning

Rapid Reasoning helps pupils in Years 3-6 improve their reasoning skills with a short daily reasoning activity. 

Each set of Rapid Reasoning is complete with: 

• A worked example
• Questions
• Answers

Typically, there are 3-4 questions each day, making Rapid Reasoning a great morning or starter activity. 

Rapid Reasoning is free for weeks 1-6. Premium memberships can access the full 36 weeks.

Worked examples

Available for Years 1-6, these worked examples are a fantastic opportunity to help pupils identify and explain errors. 

Each worked example set, organised by topic, has been completed but is unchecked. Pupils can become the teacher and identify where the errors have been made. 

Place Value and SATs are available to free users. Premium subscriptions can access worked examples for all topics.

Ready-to-go White Rose aligned lesson slides

Time is precious and we know it’s stretched for teachers. To help save teachers’ time, we’ve created a whole collection of Ready-to-go lessons aligned with the White Rose curriculum. 

Lessons cover the KS1 and KS2 curriculum with multiple activities that you can personalise for your class. 

This resource follows a mastery approach to mathematics teaching using a structure that moves from concrete resources through pictorial representations to understanding abstract concepts.

Each pack includes: 

• Editable SEND friendly PowerPoints 
• Associated worksheets 
• Answers
• Support slides
• Teacher notes
• Sentence stems 
• Relevant mathematical vocabulary 

The first Place Value block of lessons is free for all Maths Hub users and premium subscribers can access the whole year’s Ready-to-go lesson slides.

Reasoning and problem solving word problems

Teachers regularly request word problems that expose pupils to a wide variety of contexts and problem solving techniques on a single topic. With this resource, pupils can develop confidence in reasoning and problem solving using their fractions and decimals knowledge and skills before moving on to more complex mixed topic problems.

Each set of word problems for Years 3-6 is designed to improve pupils’ reasoning and problem solving. 

Every pack is complete with: 

• 10 word problems
• 1 challenge question
• Answers
• Reasoning and problem solving questions
• Real-life problems

Free Maths ub members can download the full set of Place Value word problems for Years 3-6. Those with a premium subscription can download the full range of maths topic word problems. 

SATs practice papers

These SATs practice papers are designed to help your Year 6 develop familiarity and confidence with SATs-style maths questions. 

Each pack of practice papers includes papers in the same structure as the official SATs papers. There are three papers in each pack consisting of: 

• one arithmetic test
• two reasoning tests

Year 6 teachers find having a wide range of SATs-style questions useful to help them identify areas they should focus their teaching on to boost pupil progress.

Use these papers as practice SAT papers, or to help you benchmark your pupils and adjust teaching according to areas of need. 

Pack 1 is free for all Maths Hub users to download and packs 2-6 are available for premium subscribers.

Diagnostic assessments

Assess your Year 3 to Year 6 pupils’ understanding of place value using these pre and post topic diagnostic tests.

Teachers tell us that they find it extremely valuable to assess prior knowledge before teaching a topic so they can better adapt their teaching to the needs of their class.

This diagnostic assessment can diagnose specific misconceptions and learning gaps before starting a block of work or after completing a block.

Maths specialists designed every answer for pupils to identify the correct answer and explain the common error or misconception covered by the distractor answer.

Each diagnostic assessment contains: 

• Pre-topic assessments
• Post-topic assessments
• Answers with misconception explanations

All Maths Hub members can download the Place Value diagnostic assessments for free. Premium members can access the full range of diagnostic assessment topics. 

Next steps for anyone new to the Maths Hub

These are just a selection of the resources on offer. We recommend exploring the full range of resources available in the Maths Hub yourself to see how you can best support your class with these expertly designed resources.  

For anyone looking for secondary resources, you can find an extensive range of maths resources for KS3 and KS4 in the Secondary Resource Library.