National Strategies: Secondary Mathematics
The National Strategies were professional programmes for children and young people across all the school phases in England, delivered on behalf of the Department for Education. They were first introduced in 1998 and ceased to operate in 2011. The materials were designed to help teachers and schools focus on the core business of improving teaching and learning. They are intended to offer support to both new and experienced teachers, as well as subject leaders and senior leaders. Here is a selection of the best materials for mathematics across all the phases.
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Teaching Mental Mathematics from Level Five
This series of books from the National Strategies were produced to support teachers in planning a structured and progressive approach to the development of mental processes. Students need to transfer mathematics confidently and apply it appropriately. This needs to be taught. Most commonly, students will use mental mathematics…
Interacting With Mathematics in Key Stage Three
This collection of resource materials from the National Strategies focuses on important ideas and processes which underpin a sound understanding of mathematical thinking and reasoning in the key areas of proportional reasoning, linear equations, geometrical thinking and handling data. Handling data is specific to Year Eight and…
Study Plus Resources
This set of resources, Study Plus, from the National Strategies is an intervention programme for Key Stage Four students that was designed to raise standards at GCSE, principally in English and mathematics, but also in other GCSE subjects by improving literacy, numeracy and learning in general. As an approach, Study Plus was…
Assessment for Learning
As the Key Stage Three Strategy evolved into the National Secondary Strategy, it produced guidance on a range of whole-school development issues which were all intended to help to raise standards of achievement. Assessment for Learning was an integral part of this drive, generic materials and training preceded the subject-specific…
Teaching Guidance and Activities
The 1998 National Curriculum gave rise to new emphases in both algebra and geometry and to the place of using ICT to develop mathematical thinking. These resources from the National Strategies were developed to tackle these aspects of the curriculum. The approaches described in the booklet Developing reasoning through algebra…
Teacher Self Study Units
One aim of the National Strategies was to improve and strengthen the mathematical subject knowledge of teachers. To this end a wide range of materials, in the form of self-study units for teachers, were produced to supplement Continuing Professional Development courses. The materials included: • Algebra self study units •…
Special Educational Needs Materials
The National Strategies designed some unit plans to exemplify units for Year Seven for those students working below level three. They represent a sample of units from the Year Seven curriculum map template and include ideas and activities that can be adapted to meet the needs of students, offering a flexible and practical approach…
Assessment Support Materials
This collection of materials from the National Strategies brings together those elements which are primarily concerned with supporting teachers in the development of assessment techniques and understanding of the evidence students should provide, whether it is an objective or a level. APP assessment packages: Teachers' packs…
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