 The pandemic brought a number of new challenges for parents who had to become teachers to their children through lockdown. White Rose Maths is a provider of teaching and training resources that's bridging the gap between how maths is taught at school and at home. We went to find out how. Jenny and her children Flynn and Esther are learning maths. How many hundreds have you got? Eight. And then one ten. So 163 times five is eight hundred and fifteen. Well done Flynn, that's brilliant. Well done. It's made fun and easy by White Rose Maths which provides education support for children, parents and teachers. When COVID-19 closed schools they produced free online lessons and videos with worksheets for reception to year 10. Then I felt like we both had a teacher there on the laptop so it was an extra person guiding and we actually had a really nice time. And because this was more hands-on it just seemed to go in easier. And between us we got quite a lot of good answers didn't we? We did quite a lot of correct answers when we checked them. So is your mum good at maths now? A lot of ideas. When lockdown hit families across the country had to adapt quickly to home learning and online lessons. It was a challenge for everyone. We really saw the teachers struggle during that first initial lockdown and subsequent ones in terms of having resources that they could trust and use. We had huge views in terms of the videos. So during that first lockdown there was about 20 million views of the videos. I think overall in terms of the whole project we're up to around about 70 million views of the videos. I thought how am I going to start a carpet time reception while I would always start with. Cat knows how to capture the imagination of children. A reception teacher she was in charge of developing White Rose Math's early years online program during lockdown. Completely aware that in school you've got an early years classroom, you've got sand, you've got water, you've got everything like that. At home you've got a kitchen, you've got your front room. So what could you use? So came up with lots of very bizarre ideas sometimes. You know how we creepy crawly cans and counting. We had collections outside. It had a Spider-Man theme at one stage. We had soup, potato, all sorts of things going on that really would inspire. And then it was brilliant because we got a massive social media following. There was loads of children doing things at home. The COVID videos helped to develop a program for reception in line with the new early years curriculum. It pushes for a deeper understanding of maths. In the past people that have been successful in maths may be ones with good memories so they can remember the procedures and and they just get it. And even those students we find really benefit from using diagrams and manipulatives because they can understand what they're doing more and then as they get into A-level for example they've got a really secure knowledge they're not just relying on the memory. So you can see here I have got rows of 23. Their work won them the 2021 BET COVID-19 Response Champions Award and the company continues to develop resources to help those who fell behind in education to catch up. During the first lockdown we produced around about 360 videos in that short space of time from sort of April to July. Since then we developed that going into the next academic year so that there was content for every single day for every single year group. So we've now gone from reception all the way through to year 11 around about 2,000 videos slash teaching slides that we've produced so a lot yeah yeah about about 200 hours worth of content that can be watched. So we're there and we're giving people those ideas they can use with the things in the classroom and also with the home learning back up as well so if they've got children that are off school they can automatically signpost to our home learning so they've got that they've got all those practical resources and they've got us on tap as well people can ring us they ring white rows they email us so we're always there to support and they really feel that they're being a lot more supported now and there's someone to ask and say you know just ask cap. Let's check. The pandemic also led to a wider global reach which is growing. There's like 136 countries that have downloaded our resources we're now looking into how we can spread those further starting with British international schools and ultimately maybe work in areas of the world that don't have access to high quality education so anything we can do on a charitable basis that would be the ultimate goal really. Five well done high five. Everyone can do maths they just need to be taught the right way.