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What were your reasons for doing this type of development work?
As part of the Intensifying Support Programme, target pupil interviews has identified mental agility to be a core barrier in mathematics.Many pupils even in upper KS2 demonstrated a lack of basic counting skills; struggling to count forwards and backwards in 1s and 10s, particularly when bridging 100s and 1000s. This in turn is impacting on calculation - especially subtraction.
During learning walks with subject leaders, daily counting was evident in most KS1 classes, however this quickly petered out in KS2 - with a lack of focussed counting with larger numbers, decimals and fractions.
Let's get the counting stick back in action!
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Key Points
Point 1
Target pupils interviewed often lacked basic counting skills, which in turn is impacting on calculationPoint 2
Just two minutes of counting in every lesson, in every year group has made a huge differenceRating
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