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'Numicon' builds a deep understanding of maths through a multi-sensory approach, developing children's fluency, reasoning and problem-solving. This explorer progress book is an assessment tool, allowing you to gather evidence of children's achievements.
The Explorer Progress Book supports the activities in the Numicon Geometry, Measurement and Statistics 6 Teaching Resource Handbook and offers an opportunity for teachers to assess individual children and monitor progress. This pack contains 30 copies of the Numicon Geometry, Measurement and Statistics 6 Explorer Progress Book.
The Explorer Progress Book supports the activities in the Numicon Geometry, Measurement and Statistics 1 Teaching Resource Handbook and offers an opportunity for teachers to assess individual children and monitor progress. This pack contains 30 copies of the Numicon Geometry, Measurement and Statistics 1 Explorer Progress Book.
The Explorer Progress Books support the activities in the Numicon Teaching Resource Handbooks and offer an opportunity for teachers to assess individual children and monitor progress.A great assessment tool, allowing teachers to gather evidence of children's achievements.Real-life contexts allow teachers to assess children's ability apply their mathematics learning when faced with 'non-routine' problems.Children are free to record their answers in their own way, so teachers can see their thinking.Geometry, Measurement and Statistics Explorer Progress books are also available as single titles.
This volume is intended for researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and classroom teachers who want comprehensive information on what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 (the grades assessed by NAEP) can and cannot do in mathematics. After two introductory chapters on the design of NAEP, the volume contains a chapter on the challenges in analyzing NAEP data at the item level followed by five chapters that report 2005 through 2013 student performance on specific assessment items. These chapters are organized by content area and then by topic (e.g., understanding of place value, knowledge of transformations, ability to use metric and U.S. systems of measurement) and thus provide baseline data on the proportion of students who are able to complete the mathematics tasks currently used in the upper elementary, middle, and high?school mathematics curriculum. Additional chapters focus on student reasoning, U.S. performance on international assessments, and using construct analysis rather than percent correct on clusters of items to understand student knowledge on specific mathematics topics. Several themes emerge from the volume. One is that while the rate of improvement in mathematics learning in grades 4 and 8 has slowed in recent years, it has slowed more on some topics than others. Another is that relatively minor changes in wording can have significant effects on student performance and thus it is difficult to be specific about what students can do without knowing exactly what questions they were asked. A third theme is that changes in performance over time can sometimes but not always be understood in terms of what students are taught. For example, there were substantial gains on several grade 4 items requiring understanding of fractions and that is probably because the amount of instruction on fractions in grades 3 and 4 has been increasing. In contrast, while relatively few twelfth?grade students have ever been good at factoring trinomials, performance on this skill seems to be decreasing. This suggests that while more students are completing advanced mathematics courses in high school, these courses are not helping in the area of factoring trinomials. Finally, there are limitations to using NAEP as a measure of student performance on the Common Core State Standards. To the extent that NAEP can be used, however, the NAEP data show a substantial gap between expectations and performance.
With the ever-increasing use of online learning in K-12 education, it is critically important for teachers to vary instruction to meet the wide range of individual learning styles and student diversity, whether teaching a class remotely or in person. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) makes instruction—whether in-person or virtual—more accessible for all students, and it can help teachers overcome challenges that come with remote teaching and learning. This quick-reference laminated guide provides an overview of UDL and recommends UDL strategies for providing multiple means of representation, multiple means of expression, and multiple means of engagement for students in grades K-12 who are leaning entirely virtually, in a hybrid model, or in-person. It lists best practices for incorporating UDL in English Language Arts and Mathematics, presents a UDL planning framework, and discusses other frameworks that support UDL in the classroom.
Geometry with Geometry Explorer combines a discovery-based geometry text with powerful integrated geometry software. This combination allows for the deep exploration of topics that would be impossible without well-integrated technology, such as hyperbolic geometry, and encourages the kind of experimentation and self-discovery needed for students to develop a natural intuition for various topics in geometry..
