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Maths Planning and Organisation

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I have collated some planning, assessment and organisation information from nzmaths to hopefully make it easier for you... Effective numeracy classrooms Effective pedagogy in mathematics booklet Share you classroom organisation ideas here... Possible assessments for the beginning of the year... NumPA is used each year in the junior school as part of our new entrant assessment. As it can be time consuming, it can be used to find out more about focus students rather than the whole class. This year as we are focusing on numeracy, all children will be NumPA tested at the beginning of the year so that we have clear baseline data. NumPA (Diagnostic Interview)  This diagnostic interview is administered in an individual interview. It is used to fully assess a student’s knowledge in all five of the knowledge domains and strategy in all three of the strategy domains. However, as this method of assessment is time-consuming, it is not intended that it be used with every member of a c...