Well we're up and running in the Year 4-6 of the school! Every week the students take home their stage appropriate sheet to practise as part of their homework. On Friday, they get 4 minutes to do it. There's a real buzz in my classroom as so many are improving. One boy who at the beginning of the year scored very slow on the IKAN assessment is now consistently getting around 45 out of 50 at stage 4. He's just bursting with a sense of achievement. This is now being reflected in his growing confidence in developing part-whole strategies.
This weekly practise sheet is only one of my strategies of course. This boy has regular group teaching, lots of working with materials etc. , regular practise of stage appropriate number knowledge and strategies through games, investigations etc.

We held a parent's 'guided walk-through' during maths time at a our school recently and were overwhelmed with parents particularly dads. This was a very positive time. So we know that many parents are interested in helping their children with their maths. We want to capitalize on this.

As Lester Flockton repeatedly points out we have the students for only about 20% of their waking hours. That means we don't have them for 80% of their waking hours!