Teaching Guidance and Support Materials
These resources were published as the Numeracy and then the Primary National Strategy evolved and indicated needs in further guidance on teaching calculations and more materials for teaching specific ability groups of students.
The collection contains:
Numbers and patterns: laying foundations in mathematics focuses on number, particularly counting, and the students’ developing understanding of the patterns that underpin early work.
Securing levels identifies key areas of learning that students need to secure in order to attain a particular level, key teaching and learning resources and an assessment checklist.
Mathematical challenges for able pupils in Key Stages One and Two are intended to challenge students and extend their thinking.
Mathematical vocabulary identifies the words and phrases that students need to understand and use if they are to make good progress in mathematics.
Problem solving with EYFS, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two children has lesson ideas that focus on solving problems.
National Numeracy Strategy progression charts display the progression of certain key calculation skills from Reception through to Year Six.
Teaching written calculations outlines the development of written methods and to give guidance to teachers on how best to achieve this.
Wave 3 materials support students with gaps in their mathematical understanding.
Teaching children to calculate mentally lists the number facts that students are expected to recall rapidly and suggests a range of suitable classroom activities.
Models and images posters give examples of key models and images which can enhance the teaching of mental calculation strategies.
Teaching mental calculation strategies offers guidance to teachers on teaching effective mental strategies for calculation and to make clear the expectations concerning the use of calculators.
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Numbers and Patterns: Laying Foundations in Mathematics
This set of materials from the National Strategies is intended to help practitioners working with students in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and lower Key Stage One, to plan their mathematics provision and help students to secure some of the key mathematical ideas that they will use throughout the rest of their lives. The…
Primary National Strategy 'Securing Level' Materials
These materials, from the Primary National Strategy, are intended to support teachers in ensuring that as many students as possible make the progress necessary to reach specific National Curriculum levels in mathematics. The guidance identifies key areas of learning that students need to secure in order to attain that level, key…
Mathematical Challenges for Able Pupils in Key Stages One and Two
This book of challenges for more able students from the National Numeracy Strategy contains puzzles and problems. These are accessible to a wide range of students. There are three parts covering Years One and Two, Years Three and Four, and Years Five and Six. The problems are intended to challenge students and extend their thinking.…
Mathematical Vocabulary
The purpose of this book, from the National Numeracy Strategy, is to identify the words and phrases that students need to understand and use if they are to make good progress in mathematics. It was designed to support the National Numeracy Strategy alongside the Framework for Teaching Mathematics. There are four pages of vocabulary…
Problem solving with EYFS, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two Children
These three resources, from the National Strategies, focus on solving problems. Logic problems and puzzles was designed to help students become proficient problem solvers in mathematics and identifies the strategies students might draw upon and use to solve them, and the learning approaches teachers can plan to use. There…
National Numeracy Strategy Progression Charts
These materials, produced by the National Strategies, display the progression of certain key calculation skills from Reception through to Year Six in a poster-type format together with guidance including: •Key objectives; •Examples of teaching activities and children’s work; •Probing questions; •Possible…
Teaching Written Calculations: Guidance for Teachers at Key Stages One and Two
The purpose of this booklet produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA, formerly QCA) in collaboration with the National Strategies is to outline the development of written methods of calculation and to give guidance to teachers on how best to achieve this. It deals with when and how to introduce written…
'Wave 3 Materials': Supporting Children with Gaps in their Mathematical Understanding
These materials from the National Strategies were developed during a Wave 3 mathematics pilot with 27 LEAs. Feedback influenced the revision of the teaching materials and their presentation in the pack. The materials: • were aimed mainly at Key Stage Two students, having been designed with age appropriate contexts and approaches; •…
Teaching Children to Calculate Mentally
This publication has been adapted from Teaching mental calculation strategies – guidance for teachers at Key Stages One and Two, produced in 1999 by the National Numeracy Strategy and Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (now QCDA). Its overall aim is to assist teachers’ planning by: • listing the number facts…
Models and Images Materials
This set of charts, from the National Strategies, give examples of key models and images which can enhance the teaching of mental calculation strategies through Years One to Three. In addition, the materials offer a list of potential difficulties and examples to illustrate progression through to Years Four, Five and Six. The areas…
Teaching Mental Calculation Strategies: Guidance for Teachers at Key Stages 1 and 2
The purpose of this booklet produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA, formerly QCA) in collaboration with the National Strategies is to offer guidance to teachers on teaching effective mental strategies for calculation and to make clear the expectations concerning the use of calculators. It was designed…
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- National Strategies: Primary Mathematics
- Teaching Guidance and Support Materials
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