1207 Strategic Goal - Mathematics - Progress Report - 31 July 2012

Focus:                         Mathematics

Strategic Aim:             To create a community of learners with high academic achievement in mathematics

To create a community of Maori learners with high academic achievement in mathematics

Annual Aim for 2012: To improve the percentage of pupils working above the National Standards at years 2, 4 and 6.

Rationale:

·       Presently the percentages of pupils who are assessed at achieving at or above the National Standard in maths are 19% for year 2, 49% for year 4 and 90% for year 6.

·       2011 results show that while most of our pupils have little or no understanding of maths when they first start school, they catch up in the middle years. While we are happy with the percentage achieving “at” the standard, we have virtually none achieving “above”. We would like to lift some of our achievers to high achievers.

·       In previous years we have concentrated our data collection on the understanding of place value. National Standards expect that, although 80% of our teaching will centre on the number strand, assessment must also take other strands such as geometry and measurement into account.

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