Useful Teacher Information

Overview of strand

Use this to see where the chapter is located in the strand.

How this book relates to the curriculum and standards

Use this to check which Achievement objective the chapter addresses.

Key mathematical ideas for this chapter

Use this to help direct your focus for this section of work.

What students should already know

Use this to direct your revision and your warm ups.

Overview of the chapter

These are expressed as learning intentions and could be used in your planning.

Teaching ideas – starters, plenaries

Use these ideas to start lessons or sections of work, motivate students to start thinking about the topic you are about to teach, get students active and motivated and thinking.

Many of the starters and plenaries have click through links to displayable sheets with questions or instructions for games or photos to discuss. You can either print these or display them using your computer, projector or interactive whiteboard.

Extra tasks

Use these instead of, or as well as, the Rich tasks for this chapter.

Links to other areas of mathematics and statistics

It is important that student’s don’t think of each section as an isolated topic and that they make connections to other areas of mathematics. In the student resource we have attempted to make connections between the strands in many places. These links might aid you to point out further connections.

Mappings

• From the curriculum to the student resource

Use this mapping to help you plan units of work and assess against the achievement objectives in the National Curriculum.

The following Notes to the teacher can be found in the student resource book.

Welcome to NZ Curriculum Mathematics Year 3 (2A).

This book provides plenty of material to choose from to help you cover the Year 3 (2A) & Year 4 (2B) New Zealand Curriculum achievement objectives.

You will need both Year 3 (2A) & Year 4 (2B) to fully cover all achievement objectives.

The mappings on pages 11 to 15 act as a guide, helping you by signposting what material covers which objectives from the National Curriculum and National Standards.

Note: It is not intended that students will cover all of the material in this book. Nor is it expected that students will work through the book in the order in which the material is given. Teachers are encouraged to choose their own pathways through and choose material best suited for their students.

The National standards objectives for years 3 & 4 are fully covered by this book.

Pic of icons

Icons are used in the book to indicate questions that are considered suitable for students to work through by themselves, with a partner or in a group. The think, pair and share icon indicates an opportunity for students to work through a question independently and then share and justify their ideas or strategies.

The Check up on level 1

The Check up on level 1 at the beginning of each chapter can be used to help you decide if students are ready for the work in the chapter. The Check up can be used all at one time or you can choose questions which relate to the section you are about to cover.
The number knowledge hands, shown on the check up pages, relate to number knowledge pages that are relevant to that question.

Number knowledge

The Number and Algebra section of this book is divided into number knowledge sections and number strategy chapters. The number knowledge that students require for a chapter is always before the chapter.

The Rich tasks for this chapter

The Rich tasks for this chapter, while placed at the beginning of the chapter, can be used at any time and in any way you wish.

Some ideas are:

• You could base your teaching around of the tasks for a particular section.
• You could give a task to a student, pair or group to complete at any time during the teaching of the section(s) to which it best relates.
• You could give a task for homework or as extension.
• You could give the task to help you find out what students have learned or need to revise at the end of a section or chapter.

Access to a website which includes the following is available:

• Teachers’ notes
• Ideas for starter ideas with click through resource sheets which are displayable for use in class to start a discussion, at the start of a topic, at the end of a lesson.
• Extra rich tasks
• Full mappings to the curriculum, the standards
• Printable Masters for this book.