Mathematics at Kaiapoi North School is evolving and a major focus for staff and their professional development in 2023-24. In each class, students will have group problem-solving lessons, teacher-led lessons, follow-up activities and basic facts practice.

Problem-Solving is vital to the development of students’ learning to increase their mathematical confidence and dispositions, increase social skills and promote maths in the real world. Each problem will contain a ‘launch,’ group work and a chance to share. During the sharing time, students will justify and defend their answers while correcting misconceptions and errors.

Fast Facts are Kaiapoi North’s way to teach basic facts (e.g. multiplication tables, addition facts etc.) in a variety of ways. Here are some helpful websites that students can use to improve their basic facts knowledge at home:

• Prototec
• Mathematics Games
• Maths Starters