Structure
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The
Teacher Toolkit comes in three parts: the
Teacher Cards map out the teaching and practical activities for maths lessons; the
Interactive Planner CD gives you the flexibility to personalise the plans to suit you and your class; and the
Interactive Teaching Resources CD, with inspiring ready-made activities, matches your teaching for two days per week.
The Teacher Toolkit with Multi User Licence contains Teacher Cards, an Interactive Planner CD, Teaching Assessment Notes, Homework Sheets, Interactive Teaching Resources CD, Assessment Tasks and Assessment Tests.
Teachers Cards
Adaptable, reduces your time planning and offers full flexibility At the heart of Abacus Evolve are the easy-to-follow Teacher Cards. The 30 Teacher Cards ensure there is sound progression and differentiation, the right amount of consolidation and extension and a good balance of stimulating activities in each week's teaching.
Interactive Planner CD
Helps you to plan to suit your needs. With this CD, you can:
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Adapt the lesson plans to meet the needs of your class
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Preview all the motiviating activities
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Track pupil progress and feed this back into your planning
Teaching Assistant Notes
Reduce your planning time! Comprehensive Teaching Assistant Notes help Teaching Assistants work independently and reduce the time you need to spend planning. These fully editable notes help your TA's support group work by providing instructions, practical tips and mathemetical background. Supplied in Word on the
Interactive Planning CD, enabling you to edit and adapt them to suit your class.
Homework Sheets
Adaptable and a fountain of engaging activities The Homework Sheets, supplied in Word on the
Interactive CD, provides motivating activities either to practise the week's work or lay the groundwork for the next.
Interactive Teaching Resources CD
With over 100 ready-made activities for you to choose from, this CD involves and inspires. Demonstrates mathematical concepts and makes learning fit together by using models and images from the pupil resources
Assessment Tasks
18 tasks available per year. Created to use in groups to determine pupil's understanding from observation and questioning. Each task provides details of the activity, the likely outcomes for pupils of different abilities and advice on common misconceptions
Assessment Tests
Allows you to track your pupils progress more formally. These tests cover key objectives and include written and aural tests for Years 1, 2 and 3.
Choose from three Workbooks for each of Years 1 and 2, a Textbook for Year 2, three Textbooks for Years 3 to 6 and and a set of Photocopy Masters for each year.
Three Workbooks for each of Years 1 and 2
The Workbooks offer a huge range of relevant activities for reinforcing and practising skills.
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Motivating, colourful pages for independent skills practise
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Clear differentiation so you can make sure pupils use the right pages
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One concept per page and not to much reading
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Extra activities with hands-on or problem-solving focus to support or extend learning.
Year 2 Textbook
One Year 2 Textbook covering spring and summer term in Year 2 helps pupils start to record their work.
Three Textbooks for each of Years 3 to 6
These Textbooks provide clear differentiation and progression, and have problem solving integrated throughout, including word problems, number puzzles, investigations and more.
Photocopy Masters
A set of Photocopy Masters for each year is available in two formats; photocopiable or as PDFS on the Interactive CD and in the Teacher Toolkit. These provide additional practise and reinforcement of key mathematical skills, further differentiation and resources to support whole class teaching.
The latest software to help your pupils reach their targets
Choose from Individual Practice Software for the independent practice of key skills, Talk Maths - collaborative maths activities for pairs of children or Solve the Problem featuring interactive maths problem solving for pairs and groups.
Individual Practice Software
Help your pupils reach their targets with extra independent practice of key skills, exactly matched to their needs.
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Wide variety of motivating activities differentiated to three levels
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Easy-to-use allocation system - pick the activities for your pupils that reinforce the week's teaching or help them practice and remember previous learnt skills
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Comprehensive record-keeping for you to track pupil's progress
Talk Maths
Most software is only designed to be used by one pupil - well not anymore!
Talk Maths:
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actively involves both pupils and promotes cooperation between them on one computer to find a solution
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encourages a high level of talk and helps develop speaking and listening skills
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gives pupils regular experience of solving mathematical problems and discussing the strategies they are using
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is designed to fit easily in your maths lesson
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includes Teacher Notes with ideas for introducing activities and example questions for pupils.
Solve the Problem
Gives you everything you need for motivating, challenging problem solving activities Each CD (one for each of Years 1 to 6) provides an animation to introduce the problem, the interactive activity and teachers notes including questions that can be used to extend the learning. The truly creative software:
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encourages pupils to choose and use appropriate mathematical skills and strategies to solve the problem
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gets children to talk about the strategies they might use
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can be easily differentiated by giving pupils different challenges
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helps pupils learn how to solve problems and visual puzzles in accordance with the latest NPS guidelines.