Maths Signals
Plain-English teaching signals, nudges, and useful bits from the historic KS2 SATs maths dataset so you can decide what to do next without rummaging through charts first.
This week's wobble: 6C8 is both frequent and weak at 50.3% facility.
This domain combines regular appearance, available marks, and below-par success, so it is the strongest class-wide target right now.
A wobble worth catching: 56 questions have low complexity but still performed badly.
These are useful diagnostics because pupils should be securing them. Low performance often signals misread wording, rule confusion, or rushed execution.
A useful nudge: 6M8b has the strongest omission and not-reached pattern.
Pupils are not only getting this wrong, they are also leaving it or failing to reach it, which points to timing and confidence issues.
Paper 3 is currently the toughest on average at 62.2% facility.
This is where pupils are most likely to lose marks overall, so it should shape mock balance and final-week revision.
6R2 appears in 66.7% of papers.
6R2 is one of the safest places to spend revision time because it recurs often.
Spark: Average facility moved from 67.8% to 66.3% between 2016 and 2024.
Use the trend view for context, but keep intervention choices anchored in the current weak and frequent content because historic averages alone do not tell you what to teach next.