Sparx Maths Blog

Baseline Assessment - Part One

A look back at our Baseline Assessment package

In July 2022 we launched a KS2-3 transition booklet, to support the student journey from primary school to secondary school...

Sparx Maths Content

A deep dive into how we structure content at Sparx Maths.

Over the last 10 years, the Sparx content design team have been creating and refining a quality bank of nearly 50,000 questions. Read more about how this fantastic content is structured to help support students and teachers....

Homework hand-in days

Can homework hand-in days affect homework completion?

In our flagship product, Sparx Maths, teachers are able to customise both the day that a homework assignment gets handed out and the day it is due. With this in mind, at Sparx Learning we wanted to investigate the question...

Second chance

A lesson learned

An important lesson I’ve learnt from working at Sparx Learning is that subtle changes can have surprisingly large and sometimes unexpected effects on student behaviour and learning. That’s why it’s crucial to carefully roll out new features; we need to understand the impact and can only do this by monitoring closely and talking to students and teachers. ...