Improving Learning In Mathematics

This link takes you to the Standards Units resources. They include lots of CD and DVD materials for teacher development and the folder of resources of rich tasks. From this page you can watch them on line or download them. The folder of resources is in the middle at the bottom. The link is: http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/teachingandlearning/downloads/default.aspx#math_learning

At the risk of providing ever too much information, a useful resource is the progression maps provided by the Govt. For each attainment target (on this they call "Statistics" "Handling data and probability") there is a progression map which breaks each AT down into a series of skills, which by name don't quite match the learning objectives or the APP criteria in other documents. Each of these skills within an AT has up to 10 steps (not NC levels though) in progression of understanding and ability. In each step you can click "View Step" for further details of what the step means, a link to the supplement of examples from the old Framework folder, a section of probing questions and a section of what to do if the students say "I don't get it". All of this is found at:
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/secondary/intervention/progressionmaps

I have been trying to match up the phrases in the new APP booklet with the phrases on the mathematics learning objectives document and don't think they do match. I also had in mind what used to be called "Key Objectives" - a phrase which I don't think really applies anymore. It seems that the phrases in the new APP booklet (the one with two levels per page that we're meant to use for levelling some students in each class) could be viewed as the key objectives as they are what is used to decide if a student is at a level or not. I found a nice document produced by eRidings on their site which I have made available at http://www.wiltshire-ast.co.uk/media/maths-documents/index.php which does list the old key objectives for each year group (and able students in y9) and matches these up to "probing questions" for each one - perhaps good to have in a scheme of work. They are called "Year 7 key objectives and probing questions eRidings" (Y7, 8, 9 and able y9 files exist.) The eRidings site that these came from also has some resources and is found at http://www.eriding.net/maths/tl_resources_sec.shtml