Years 7 & 8 Maths Acceleration Trial Results 

25 November 2025 

New data from a nationwide maths acceleration trial for Year 7 and 8 students who needed extra support shows students made, on average, a year to two years of progress in just 12 weeks in the focus areas of the trial. Additionally, students not in the trial, simply learning under the new curriculum, an hour-a-day of maths, and using high quality resources, also made, on average, a full year’s progress in just 12 weeks. 

The content of the 12-week programme was broken into four key learning areas deemed to develop fundamental maths skills; Number structure, addition and subtraction, multiplication & division fluency, fractions & decimals, percentages and proportional reasoning. 

The 12-week acceleration trial involved nearly 3000 Year 7 and 8 students who were a year or more behind. Students received targeted, small-group tutoring up to four times a week across three models: in-person, hybrid and online. 

Across the 12-week period, students achieved: 

• Around two years’ progress in the in-person model. 
• 13–14 months’ progress in the hybrid model. 
• 12 months’ progress in the online model. 

The analysis shows similar gains regardless of background, equity index, school or ethnicity. 

The $40 million programme is now being rolled out nationwide, with around 13,000 students set to take part from Term 1 2026. All schools that requested to be part of the programme have been accepted. In addition, schools will have the opportunity to include more students in the programme later in 2026.   

Earlier this year, the Make It Count maths action plan came into effect. It introduced structured mathematics, an internationally benchmarked curriculum, one million workbooks and textbooks delivered to classrooms, and professional learning for more than 22,000 teachers, alongside hour-a-day maths and phones away.