A structured scope and sequence serves as the backbone of effective teaching and learning. It provides teachers with a clear roadmap, ensuring that each concept builds upon the foundation laid before it. By carefully sequencing mathematical topics and activities, Structured Maths Approach empowers young learners to gradually develop their skills and confidence. With a well-organized structure, teachers can create a supportive learning environment that allows students to thrive, leading to a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts.
I am Jordan Priestley, the founder of Mrs Priestley ICT.
Teaching is not just my profession; it is my true passion. Over the years, I have witnessed the transformative power of education, and particularly mathematics, in shaping young minds. My dedication to teaching and my commitment to providing high-quality resources led me to create Structured Maths Approach. It is my heartfelt desire to instil a love for mathematics in students at an early age, laying a strong foundation for their future academic and personal growth. And the best part is a structured approach that builds on the key skills right from when they first start school.
Read on below to understand a background in the creation of Structured Maths Approach and what informs its creation.
Structured Maths Approach is not a pedagogy or a curriculum. But a scope and sequence for New Zealand setting.
The New Zealand curriculum refresh brought out many new changes to maths in NZ, with the main being the change around to curriculum levels. Typically, the NZ Curriculum has had curriculum levels with achievement objects for students to achieve in those levels. With this refresh, the levels have been taken away and reworked into the 'understand, know, do' through progress steps and outcomes.
Structured Maths Approach is aligned to the progress outcomes, covering number know hows. Featured and covered in the lessons Phase 1-7 are:
To find out more about The New Zealand Curriculum refresh, visit the link here.
I have also put together a comparison between The New Zealand Curriculum refresh and Structured Maths Approach which you can find here on the resource page.
The Science of Maths is a movement focused on using objective evidence about how students learn maths. It talks about blending of key concepts woven together to build maths proficiency. These are:
In addition to this, The Science of Maths talks about teachers using a progression of maths learning, using multiple approaches to meet the needs of students, using explicit regular instruction and formative assessment on a regular basis to assess student learning.
Structured Maths Approach is built on a progression of clear learning lessons covering its unique scope and sequence to support New Zealand Curriculum knowledge. It strives on the importance of having regular and explicit teacher instruction from assessment and knowing your students needs. Structured Maths Approach builds on knowledge prior and provides a wide range of learning concepts and procedures that blend those skills together.
The 'I do, we do, you do' model is based upon the gradual release of responsibility from teacher to student. This encourages all students to master what they need to learn, nurtures elf-efficacy and reduces anxiety from students within lessons.
Structured Maths Approach uses this model in learning lessons to allow students to successfully follow, increase their confidence and allow for the teacher to differentiate based on needs. Whether using Structured Maths Approach as a whole class or group approach; the lesson sequence allows for them to build success and conceptualise the learning.
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Structured Literacy teaching emphasises highly explicit, systematic and sequential teaching of important concepts within literacy. This is proven to have huge success with students in literacy including a best evidence approach for effective teaching for students with dyslexia.
Structured Literacy is on the rise in New Zealand with more and more schools turning to using this in their setting and teaching practice.
In 2021, I developed my own Structured Literacy lesson sequence - to support the curriculum model I was using. It focuses on all the key aspects within a lesson and allows for teachers to pick it up and go; or being a place of call for that quick reminder. Not a pedagogical change, not a curriculum. But a lesson sequence to use within teaching a structured literacy lesson. This has been proven to show success with teachers and students; and align with the fundamental concepts that make up Structured Literacy. Clear and explicit to teach and deliver the lessons.
For Structured Maths Approach, I took that same lesson sequence and adapted it for a Maths lesson. An opportunity to bring in that same level of explicitness, systematic and sequential opportunities of learning - but with your maths lens.
Structured Literacy inspired the creation of Structured Maths Approach as that layered building block of knowledge for students to grow, learn and have opportunities for that 'high stakes' ceiling learning. It was extremely important that Structured Maths Approach offered that same consistency for teachers to build confidence with using maths.
Jordan Priestley | info@mrspriestleyict.com
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