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titleorderInteger

Primary schools are excellent at teaching this, so if there are problems with this skill - the small bite approach will hopefully help fix them.

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titleplace100value9999

Sorry this topic isn’t well developed, but the 2 layers that currently exist are really helpful for improving place value skills.

Please do request extra layers from this topic, or the easier topic place1value99 and the harder topic place10000valueUP

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titleprime

There are many layers which lead the learner gently towards traditional prime questions.

For learners with poor division skills, gently learning these skills helps with learning so many harder topics, so do give this topic a go - check out how easy layer 1 is.

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titlediscreteGraph

These questions tend to engender a lot of shame, as learners may have been failing at these for many years. The small bite approach really helps fix this.

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frequencyTable
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This is really helpful for improving accuracy and checking.

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titleMMMRQseparate

Helps fix ordering accuracy.

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titleprobabilitySingle

Accessible even to learners who can’t write a fraction correctly yet

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proportionalGraph
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Important grounding in proportion

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titlestemLeaf

Excellent for fixing place value issues which counting hasn’t resolved

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titleVenn

Good for logic, checking accuracy and possibly easy marks in GCSE - so do teach this topic

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Second curriculum spiral

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Most learners will be better off only learning one new topic in the last maths lesson of the week + given a slightly longer assignment - so some of these topic pairs will need to be split up. However it is sometimes possible to use the last lesson of the week as an opportunity to teach a harder topic as the second topic to more highly attaining and faster working learners.

  • The order of teaching within the topic theme is not very important - so change the order when it suits.

  • Try to keep the pairs of “everybody learns” + “only faster pace for practice learners” as suggested below

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