1. WELCOME!

2. Maths Curriculum Evening: Key Aims
To share our success with you
To open a dialogue and engage in a partnership to support your son
To explain how we will continue to support your son through to GCSE
To explain recent changes to the GCSE specification
To explain our pedagogy with
an explanation and summary of the 12 Big Ideas
a focus on defining ‘terms’ and commutative, associative and distributive laws
an understanding of the difference between ordinality and cardinality
application of the concept of zero
the reason we use cups and a study of division

3. GCSE Mathematics Results
at De La Salle College
A* to C A* to C
85% %
% %
% %

4. Results for 4 Students with average CAT scores under 80
C D E
<75:
75-79:

5. Results for 11 Students with average CAT scores between 80 and 90
C D E
80-84:
85-89:

6. Results for 8 Students with average CAT scores over 120
A* A :
125+: 4

7. Scheme of Learning and assessment at Key Stage 3
Year 7 and Year 8 topic overviews
Formative assessment summary sheets for the end of each topic
November, March and June Assessment windows
(Past paper mocks from Spring Year 9)
Evaluating and reporting progress against MTL

8. Programme of Study All students experience all topic areas
All students at KS4 above lowest ability group are prepared towards Higher GCSE standard
Cyclic nature of the SOL
Careful monitoring to ensure the correct tier of entry at GCSE

9. The New GCSE Curriculum for teaching from September 2015
New Content at both Foundation and Higher levels eg
Trigonometry at Foundation level
Iterative methods for solving equations at Higher level
Emphasis on reasoning and proof; first principles not tricks!
Memorise a range of general formulae

10. Homework at KS3 4 Consecutive Pages Page 5 ≡ Level 5
Aim to complete one level above MTL
All assignments can be corrected!
2 SAT-style in every half term

11. Supporting Learning at De La Salle
Maths Club: Tuesday to Friday mornings, Tuesday after school and Thursday after school
The Student Shared Area
Maths Help Booklet
KS3 Learning Plans
Topic Revision Worksheets

13. Homework at KS4 4 Pages at either Foundation or Higher level
Regular monitoring and feedback
Opportunities to correct and improve
Statistics, Pure and Geometry content

14. 12 Big Ideas + - × ÷ = Denomination Ratio The Symbols Speak to You
Logic of the Language
Infinity
Proof
Sample and Population
12 Big Ideas

16. Simplify
2+3×2

17. Commutative, associative
Defining a term
Commutative, associative
and distributive laws

18. Ordinality vs Cardinality
Defining and identifying manyness and muchness

19. The concept of zero Simplifying Expressions and Solving Equations

20. Arbitrarily naming cups
A focus on division

21. 1 ÷ = 2

22. If we have time … multiplication using logical language