Overview: QuickSmart Online Numeracy (QSON) is a self-paced learning program designed to be delivered to anyone who requires assistance to improve their basic numeracy skills and are caught in a cycle that precludes advancement. It is delivered as a standalone program that can be used independently or in facilitated groups.
QuickSmart Online Program Description
QuickSmart Online Numeracy (QSON) is designed to improve students’ information retrieval times, free working memory from routine tasks, and foster automaticity in basic skills.
QSON targets students in the lower 30-50% bracket, while traditional face-to-face QuickSmart serves the lower 10-30% bracket. QSON is not intended as a replacement for face-to-face programs.
Accessed through the QuickSmart Portal, QSON features online versions of face-to-face lesson components:
- Focus Facts (June 2025 Update: The Focus Facts component is currently being redeveloped following trial feedback)
- Flash Cards
- Speed Sheets
- Fast and Accurate Basic Skills (FABS); the assessment component equivalent to QBSA
- Games
- Problem Solving (currently in development)
Following comprehensive trials with select South Australian schools in 2021-2022, QSON improves basic numeracy skills through targeted explicit instruction and deliberate practice in an interactive environment.
The intervention increases accuracy and automatic recall while emphasising conceptual understanding through explicit approaches highlighting key underpinning concepts.
Based on research demonstrating the importance of specific component skills, QuickSmart enables students developing fluency in basic skills to direct more cognitive resources to higher-order processes like meaningful reading and mathematical problem-solving.
More details coming soon!
If you would like to be notified when QSON is available for purchase, please fill out the expression of interest form below: