TEN3 Primary Maths Curriculum
Arithmetic practice for Primary 5 and up — where the work is delayed on purpose, and the pattern matters more than the speed.
Count, spot the patterns, learn the tables. Pick your level and choose something to do.
For the classroomWhat the app offers at each level, what it deliberately withholds, and the page of the curriculum behind every decision.
Put it on a phone, tablet or computer — how to keep it like an app, how it works with no internet, and what is stored on the device.
L. P. Benezet, superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire, stopped teaching formal arithmetic below the seventh grade in 1929 and taught reading, reasoning and speaking instead. Within a year those children reached the level that traditionally taught children had reached after three and a half years of drill — and they were far better at explaining and applying it.
So this curriculum delays formal arithmetic. Primary 1 to 4 is oral and physical: counting jump-rope, comparing a pencil to a stick of chalk, guessing the height of a window and then measuring it. None of that belongs on a screen, and the app does not offer it. Primary 5 is the first level with anything here at all, and there is no setting that changes that.
Why this curriculum delays arithmetic — what Benezet actually did, what his tests showed, and what the experiment does not prove.
Count by a number and watch the shape it draws on the hundred chart. The 9s make a perfect diagonal — and that is the same fact as the 9 times table's second digit falling by one each row.
ReadyWhat is on screen at P1–P4, at P5, and at P6 and above — with the curriculum page behind each line.
TeachersWho this is built on, who compiled the curriculum, and who it is dedicated to.
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