1. St Thomas More Catholic School
Numeracy
Wednesday 14th November 2018

2. Overview •Curriculum model •Assessments •Progress with STM Stages
•Homeworks
•Useful websites
•Key methods

3. Curriculum model: STM STAGE
Within a stage, there are 3 x10 week modules.
Each 10 week module has 3-6 units within.

4. Curriculum model: STM STAGE
Units:
Within a unit there are 1-5 concepts that students are expected to be fluent with and able to apply.
Every unit has been selected for that stage to ensure students are developing the skills and key concepts they need to build upon.
Assessments:
Every stage has 12 assessments.
Each assessment challenges the students understanding of key concepts.
Homework:
Every stage has essential knowledge that students need. Covered through homeworks

5. Assessments EACH ASSESSMENT HAS THE SAME FORMAT: ‘Only’ 5 questions
Each question has a different focus….

6. Assessment: MISCONCEPTION Assessment: APPLICATION
Assessment: PROBLEM SOLVING
Assessment: REASONING
Assessment: FLUENCY
Fluency focus – can students recall the knowledge/skill and answer simple questions using this knowledge/skill.
SUPPORT: Help your child to KNOW the basics for that assessment
Reasoning focus – Quite often the hardest questions, as designed to fully test the depth of understanding a student has with the concept.
SUPPORT: This is prompting students to communicate mathematically, help them by asking them to explain it to you.
Problem solving focus – can students use the knowledge/skill to answer a question that isn’t straight forward.
SUPPORT: Help your child to breakdown the problem into smaller steps, what can they do?
Application focus – Similar to problem solving, these questions attempt to put the concept into context.
SUPPORT: Help your child to identify what the question is, quite often the maths will be embedded within the question, rather than explicit.
Misconception focus – These questions are designed to test a students full understanding and support them to identify common misunderstandings
SUPPORT: Generally they will be wrong and students need to compare to the ‘correct’ answer, support your child by helping them to spot the error and then explain it.

7. Progress with STM Stages
Students in year 7 will be studying either STM Stage 2 or 3
Students securing 90% or more are deemed to be exceeding expected progress for that stage and able to work independently
Students securing between 40-90% are making sufficient progress in- line with expectations, they may just require occasional support to access all areas of the work
Students securing less than 40% are still developing for that stage and need lots of scaffolding/support to access the work.

8. Homeworks
Essential Knowledge is covered through the homeworks set. We also want to focus our MIS (Making It Stick) through the homeworks by visiting lots of topics through ‘fluency’ questions.
In line with school policy there are two styles of homework;
Responsive – ALL KS3 students have a 20Qs sheet to complete every week. Additionally, they will have 3Qs set by their teacher.
Planned – in mathematics referred to as extended homeworks. These homeworks will be the chance for students to update their independent knowledge book.

9. Homeworks: RESPONSIVE
20 Questions
Homeworks are released every 8am for completion by the following Monday. Although each teacher will give their own deadlines.
All students following the STM Stage will have the same 20 Qs homeworks.
Support is available to ALL KS3 students on Thursday lunchtimes in M5

10. Homeworks: PLANNED Research to find out more (google it)
Have them explain what they are doing to you and write down any examples.
Question them: What? Why? How? Explain? Justify? Always true?
Highlight mistakes and encourage them to correct them – to ensure their Yellow book is correct.
Tell them any answers

11. eMathsmaster An online learning platform.
Designed to offer a mastery approach to learning mathematics; students need to secure the basics before they move on to more challenging work. Packaged with mobile/tablet suited videos and using the feel of computer games.
Students have all been ed their username (their school address) and password (can be reset, please get in touch if needs be).
Our link for the site is:
eMathsmaster STM link

12. Useful websites MyMaths: www.mymaths.co.uk
SCHOOL LOGIN: stmore PASSWORD: rectangle
(All students have their own login details. Covers almost everything; lessons, games, puzzles, homeworks, etc)
CoolMath4Kids:
Maths Is Fun:
Khan Academy:
Math Playground:
MathTV:
Hegarty Maths:
Cut The Knot:
BBC Schools:
Mr Barton:

13. Key methods GRID METHOD: (Also known as, FARMERS FIELD or Partioning
Video:

14. Key methods COLUMN MULTIPLICATION: Video:
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15. Key methods LONG DIVISION:
(If asked must be long division and NOT short division)
Remainders should NOT be
used.
Video:

16. Key methods
There are 21 girls in a class. The ratio of boys to girls is 1:3 so have many boys were there?
BAR MODEL:
(Can be used for a variety of problems.
Very useful with managing ratio
Video: