What a topic is and how it is represented and used within the app
What is a topic?
A topic is a themed sequence of strands.
The strands within the topic are numbered, with 1 being the easiest.
The skills/knowledge/methods from strand 1 are sometimes required for strand 2 and sometimes the skills/knowledge/methods for strand 1 is unconnected but easier than those for strand 2.
Some topics have only a few strands, some have many. The topic stem and leaf has 3 strands and value of (index) - pdf & mp4 has 15 strands.
Give me an example
You can find examples of the kind of questions for each strand from a pdf document. See download a pdf document for a list of all of these.
The topic calculator skills - pdf & mp4 has 8 strands.
The skills and knowledge from strand 1, strand 2 and strand 3 are required to learn strand 4.
The skills/knowledge/method from correct to strand 2 (correctTO2.pdf) e.g. " Write 637.647 correct to 1 decimal place." is required for calculator skills strand 6 (calcSkills6.pdf)
The strand number gives an indication of the level within a topic but not between topics.
For example add strand 4 - adding two double digits, is easier than ratio strand 1 sharing an amount of money into a given ratio.
| add strand 4 | ratio strand 1 |
|---|---|
4. Karolina has 62 stickers. She gets given 24 stickers and sticks them on a wall. How many stickers did Karolina stick on the wall. |
(a) Faith and Katy share £35 in the ratio 3 : 2 Work out how much each person gets. There are two types of magazine, monthly magazines and weekly magazines. The ratio of the number of monthly magazines to the number of weekly magazines is 5 : 2 The total number of magazines is 28 Work out the number of monthly magazines. |
How to see all the topics and its strands outside the app?
The topics and the strands within are are shown in download a pdf document
How to see all the topics within the app?
The topics available are shown on the home page Home / Classes / classname
How to see all the strands within a topic within the app?
The strands are shown in Progress on Topic found in the Home / Classes / classname / Progress on Topic page.
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