Explicit Multi-Sensory Maths
Educator Training

Equip yourself with the knowledge, confidence, and tools to teach maths for true mastery.

Self-Paced Courses • Monthly Live Sessions • Research-Backed Methodology • NESA Recognised

Training Pathways

Total Maths Mastery (All Modules)

The complete pathway to becoming a multi-sensory maths specialist. This comprehensive program covers all three modules: Foundations, Multiplication & Division, and Fractions, Decimals & Percents, alongside full implementation support, live mentoring, and lifetime access. Equip yourself with the pedagogy, tools, and confidence to transform maths outcomes for every student.

Module One: Foundations of Maths 

Build the bedrock for maths mastery. In this course, educators learn to teach counting, place value, addition, subtraction, and time using hands-on, multi-sensory tools. You’ll discover how to make abstract concepts concrete, reduce maths anxiety, and confidently teach even the most anxious learners. Perfect for all teachers starting their multi-sensory maths journey.

Module Two: Multiplication & Division

Progress from arithmetic to advanced understanding with explicit, step-by-step instruction in multiplication and division. You’ll master how to teach whole-number operations using simple, visual strategies that make complex ideas click. This module shows how to move students from hands-on to representational to abstract understanding—building deep comprehension and engagement.

Module Three: Fractions, Decimals & Percents

Transform one of the most challenging areas of maths into one of the simplest to teach. This course helps educators guide students to mastery of fractions, decimals, and percents through tactile learning and clear, structured instruction. Learn how to connect these concepts to real-world applications and watch students gain true confidence in higher-order maths.

Upcoming In-Person Training

Hybrid in-person and online training courses, in Australia and Internationally. 

Why Training Matters

Student success depends on a confident and well-trained teacher. A great program isn’t enough.

We’ve distilled 24+ years of research and classroom practice into signature training modules that show you not only what to teach, but how to teach it effectively.

Designed for teachers, tutors, intervention specialists, and parents, our training is especially effective for transforming outcomes for students with dyscalculia, learning differences, or maths anxiety.

Our training is: 

• Practical – step-by-step lessons you can use immediately.
• Research-based – grounded in the RTI framework and our I-CRAVE Maths methodology.
• Transformational – proven to boost outcomes for general students, as well as those with dyscalculia, learning differences, or maths anxiety.

Our Training is Evidence-Based

I-CRAVE Maths Methodology

I = IDENTIFY
To offer effective instruction, you must know the student's current level of mastery. Through a sequential series of simple-to-use assessments, you'll identify the foundations that are - or are not - in place for us to build upon and hence where to begin.

C = CONCRETE
Every lesson begins with clear and accurate demonstrations using specific hands-on manipulative tools (integer blocks or advanced kit) to build rectangles and create understanding for application in real life.

R - REPRESENTATION
The student draws their own proportionately accurate representation of what they have just built. Much like a dog could look more like a dinosaur if the proportions are inaccurate, so too representations in base ten must be proportionally accurate to develop congruency, confidence and understanding (yes, that’s right - no bundles, no ten frames, no dots - they’ve been superseded).

A = ABSTRACT
Show the symbols and teach the rules of the language of maths accurately. With understanding from the concrete and representational stages, the student can both encode and decode with confidence and ease.

V = VERBAL
Consistently engage the student in dialogue to enhance their learning and to check whether your teaching has been clear and accurate. Have the student teach the lesson back to you to check for understanding. Them hearing their own voice embeds the knowledge. 

E = EXPLICIT
Explicit Instruction refers to that which is clear, accurate, precise and transferable. We ensure absolute congruency between the models used, the representations drawn, the squiggles written and the verbal instructions given for application in everyday life. This congruency develops confidence and maximises teaching time through reducing extraneous instructional clutter.

The Research

Our focus at Maths Australia is to educate teachers in research and evidence based pedagogy and to provide them with smart, multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate solutions that they can bring to their students, confident of their success.

Since 2000, we've tested, and refined, how to most effectively integrate research to provide outstanding numeracy outcomes for both neurotypical and neuro-divergent students.

The products and services we provide are informed by the following bodies of research:

• The Science of Learning
• Cognitive Load Theory
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Rosenshine’s Principles Of Instruction
• Trauma-Informed Practice
• Explicit Direct Instruction
• Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
• Response-To-Intervention (RTI) Framework
• Big Ideas In Number
• Piaget's Developmental Stages

Important Essentials from the Research

Our training, manipulatives and program equip educators to incorporate the following essentials effectively, plus much more. 

Though you've heard of, or possibly even integrated these recommendations before, it's our attention to the subtle detail in their application that equips you to make all the difference. Our absolute confidence in the way we teach you to implement them means we can guarantee your success.

Customised Training

Whether you’re looking to strengthen Tier 1 whole-class instruction, build targeted Tier 2 small-group support, or deliver Tier 3 intervention, we’ll create a tailored training plan for your staff. Delivered online or on-site, each session combines practical demonstrations, hands-on use of manipulatives, and ready-to-implement strategies—so teachers walk away confident, equipped, and ready to implement in their classrooms the very next day.

Let's teach maths as the language that it is.