Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 How the curriculum has changed and its effect, Concrete – Pictorial – Abstract, Fluency – Reasoning – Problems, Challenge by choice, Your child’s class.

Old curriculum: Fluency and skills based, Assessments to match this, Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Old curriculum: Fluency and skills based, Assessments to match this, Open choices for methods,

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Key changes: Written methods are set in stone, No calculator work at all, Significantly increased expectations, Increased content, Being fluent is not enough.

I found my brother’s SAT paper from 2011. It was really easy! Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 I found my brother’s SAT paper from 2011. It was really easy!

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Impact on teaching and learning: Focused on deepening children’s understanding of a topic rather than rushing them on, Increased amount of reasoning and problem solving, Raised expectations, Greater level of challenge.

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Concrete – Pictorial - Abstract

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Concrete – Pictorial - Abstract

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Peter and Jane have 60 sweets in total between them. Peter has three times as many sweets as Jane. How many sweets does Jane have? Model Calculations ? 15 60 ÷ 4 = 15 Jane 60 Peter

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Adam is twice as old as Barry. Charlie is 3 years younger than Barry. The sum of all their ages is 53. How old is Barry? Model Calculations Adam 53 + 3 = 56 56 ÷ 4 = 14 Barry 56 53 14 ? 3 Charlie

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Concrete – Pictorial - Abstract Abstract working is the calculation itself. This includes when given as a written calculation and when included inside a word problem.

To become fluent in a skill is to be able to complete the process. Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Fluency – Reasoning – Problem Solving To become fluent in a skill is to be able to complete the process.

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Fluency – Reasoning – Problem Solving Reasoning looks deeper into the topic and explores how and why something works. Explain his mistake. Aaron has a bag of sweets. He gives 20% of them to his friend Bob. He then gives 20% of what is left to his friend Jeff. Aaron believes that he has 60% of his original number of sweets left. Why is he wrong?  

Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Fluency – Reasoning – Problem Solving Word problems and problem scenarios

Bespoke curriculum. Challenge by choice. Maths Evening for parents 28/02/17 Bespoke curriculum. Challenge by choice.