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What differences do you notice between the old syllabus and the new syllabus?

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What differences do you notice between the old syllabus and the new syllabus?

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New terminology has been incorporated in the new syllabus which is confusing for students and staff.

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More mental strategies for students to learn

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Old: very structured and separated strands. New: strands are intertwined

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Old: very structured and separated strands. New: strands are intertwined

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There is a big emphasis on word problems where the children are challenging themselves and enjoying maths more.

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The new syllabus is more challenging.

It combines concepts from different strands are combined which helps challenge students.

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terminology

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What concerns or input do you have regarding students' mathematical abilities and learning in the classroom? How are you managing this?

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What concerns or input do you have regarding students' mathematical abilities and learning in the classroom? How are you managing this?

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Students applying previously learnt material and retaining that information

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Decrease in confidence, more manipulatives

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What trends (positive and negative) do you observe continuing to occur in mathematics over the years? What do you think is the reason behind these trends?

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What trends (positive and negative) do you observe continuing to occur in mathematics over the years? What do you think is the reason behind these trends?

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What changes do you believe need to happen to assist our students in retaining mathematical knowledge as they progress through the years?

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What changes do you believe need to happen to assist our students in retaining mathematical knowledge as they progress through the years?

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continue with using hands on and concrete materials

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continue with using hands on and concrete materials

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Focus on the basics: begin each lesson with whole number warm-up

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Focus on the basics: begin each lesson with whole number warm-up

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Change of language used and concepts are integrated more. 

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Change of language used and concepts are integrated more. 

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the new syllabus is not as heavy as the old syllabus but in a good way.

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understanding and identifying key words in word problems

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understanding and identifying key words in word problems

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more guided practice to retain strategies and formulas

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I feel like it is very rushed and there is not enough time to go through content. This years Yr 3 require a lot of explicit and guided teaching rather than working independently.

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I feel like it is very rushed and there is not enough time to go through content. This years Yr 3 require a lot of explicit and guided teaching rather than working independently.

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students need to refer back to previous concepts

guide them to find the answer

not independent thinkers

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Students forget easily so they need constant repetition and revisiting of previously learned concepts. We need to implement more fun, informal quizzes such as kahoot to help transfer to long term memory however, unfortunately, most classrooms are not equipped with appropriate technology to action this.

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teacher expectations - different in different grades