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The Strategic Maths series provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies. The books have been designed to allow teachers to tailor their teaching to the range of learners in the class. Students are assessed during and after each unit to ensure they have developed a deep understanding of the big ideas in number.

Each 16 page unit of Strategic Maths focuses on a key mathematical understanding of Number and contains:
- a Unit Planning outline, listing all of the support resources on the CD-ROM
- a Top 5 that lists and assesses the targeted outcomes of the unit
- 5 photocopiable Activity sheets with an accompanying page of teaching notes that outlines the activity�s rationale and provides preliminary teaching ideas
- a photocopiable assessment Activity sheet with a �Tick and Flick Rubric� to assist teachers to diagnose their students� level of understanding
- a �Letter to the family� that can be sent home with the student outlining the concept being taught in class and suggesting ways these can be supported in the home environment
- resource cards for photocopying and laminating

To view a a short video of author Ann Baker demonstrating two of the CD-ROM activies on an interactive whiteboard please click on the youtube video below:

2 CD-ROMs included!

Each Strategic Maths title comes with a Teacher Disk and a Student Disk.

Teacher Disk

The Teacher Disk contains resources to support each unit of work within each book. Each unit opens with a description of its Target Strategies.

The disk also contains:

- Interactive Activities: Colourful interactive slide shows that demonstrate the maths strategies and concepts encountered with the unit and self-checking applets that enable the students to practise the concepts at their own pace. Both types of activity have been specifically designed to use with an interactive whiteboard (IWB) but they can also be demonstrated using a data projector and screen.

- Mental Routines: 10 minute lesson starters with suggested closed, open and flip questions designed to engage students and develop their mathematical vocabulary.

- Problematised Situations: Challenges that encourage students to work mathematically on open-ended realistic situations using their own method of solution.

- Games: Fun activities designed to reinforce the strategies developed in each unit.

- Posters: Colourful posters outlining key mental computation strategies that can be displayed and discussed.

Student Disk

All of the colourful self-checking applets are on the Student Disk as individual programs. These programs can be copied to classroom computers and to memory students to take home.

Coming soon!

Strategic Maths Middle Primary Book 2 - Term 1 2009.
Strategic Maths Upper Primary Book 1 & 2 - Term 1 2009.