Equally we are hoping
that it will become an area for Staffordshire teachers to
share good practice, ideas, and resources and activities that they
have developed.
If you are from a Staffordshire school and would like to make a
contribution
please contact a member of the team.
We are especially
hoping to promote direct links to school web sites which have a
mathematics area, via our 'Primary School News' page.
AND
To use this page to illustrate what is happening in your schools, such as
examples of pupil work, your puzzle of the week, and photographs of
display work. Perhaps someone is about to run a
'Maths Week' and can send us photographs and accounts of the event
and the activities that were on offer.
If you have any items for the 'Primary School News' page, or wish to discuss any potential ideas
that you may have for these
pages please contact myself jim.kelly@staffordshire.gov.uk
or any member of the Maths Team.
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Monitoring Mathematics |
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How do I find out what’s
happening in mathematics?
To help you assess the standards being
attained by pupils, you could focus on:-
 | Data |
| Classroom observations |
| Pupil interviews |
| Planning scrutiny |
| Work scrutiny |
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Why do the work trawl?
| Initial fact finding to
identify a development area
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| To evaluate the impact of an
agreed initiative i.e. subtraction, marking policy
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| To check that progress is being
maintained |
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What is the focus of the work
trawl?
The regular work trawls should be linked to
the Maths Action Plan.
A focus could be:-
| Using whole school’s agreed
approaches to subtraction |
| Effective use of the marking
policy |
| Agreed presentation of work
i.e. learning objective and date |
| Evidence of manageable
differentiation |
| Regular opportunities for
problem solving |
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Things to consider:-
| Whole school work scrutiny
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| Mini–trawls across year groups
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| Different target groups |
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Download Scrutiny proforma - focus 'progression in calculation |
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Download blank Scrutiny proforma |
