How do I use Numeracy Visual Pathways

Purpose

• Provides a visual data wall for you providing appropriate timely child centred teaching
• Provides feedback and next steps parents can help with at home
• Provides current goals and next learning steps for each child
• Provides a pathway of learning (big picture) for children
• Ensures there are no gaps in learning of knowledge teaching or learning
• Aligns with Numeracy Project and National standards and testing
• Creates peer tutoring opportunities
• Creates opportunities to learn using equipment in their own way when they want to – not just math time
• Empowers children as learners
• Provides consistent language of math for children throughout school
• Creates opportunities for children to share their challenges, learning, thinking and achievements with pride

Class display

• A3 laminated pathway for knowledge only on wall in sequence
• Only display the stages your children are working at (space)
• Once you have gathered data you will know what stage they are working at for knowledge
• Put each child’s name on a math counter and blu tac it to the start of the stage they are working in creating the look of a board game.
• No children are to touch their name – only teacher decides if they can move up a block
• Children must pass through each step and never jump steps without providing evidence of their learning.

Daily

• Children work on their knowledge goal independently, with peers, using equipment every day while you are working intensive teaching strategy with group.
• Children are introduced to different ways to use equipment to achieve their goal through inquiry so it is child owned and child centered learning.

Routine may look like:

• Warm up – you tube song about counting back
• Pose a question – How can I learn to write numbers correctly, How can I get better at adding? What is a number line? What equipment will help me learn to skip count backwards?
• Children investigate, discuss, share, as teacher collects information from children and records on large paper poster for class. (list, mindmap) This can be reflected on later in the week with which is the best equipment for this job? What was the quickest strategy for this problem?
• Ask children what is your goal and send away to the number space. Children then work on math goals independently confident that they are focused. Intensive strategy teaching is done with groups
• Children share with you three ways they achieved a goal then you decide if they go up to next goal. This is important to do regularly otherwise they will lose interest. You need to value their work as much as you want them to.
• Sharing time at end of math session Teacher scaffolds by questioning.
• What was the tricky part?
• What equipment helped you today?
• Did someone else help you with your thinking?
• What will your next goal be?
• Can you think of another way to learn this or show your thinking?