The key features of the Maths Recovery Programme are:
(a) intensive, individualized, group or class teaching of low-attaining pupils by specialist MR teachers
(b) an extensive professional development course to prepare the specialist MR teachers, and on-going collegial and support for these teachers
(c) use of a strong underpinning theory of young children’s mathematical learning, and
(d) use of an especially developed instructional approach, and distinctive instructional activities and assessment procedures