During the term your child will have participated in a wide range of assessments in Mathematics. This is an explanation of a few of them.

We use a range of assessment techniques in Mathematics to gather information about your child to help us better know and support them with their learning. These may include observations of your child problem-solving, listening to reporting back during lessons, workshops, one-to-one testing such as JAM or standardised testing such as PATs.

The Mathematics Curriculum is broken into three areas:

• Number and Algebra
  

• Geometry and Measurement*
  

• Statistics*

*While all three areas are strands of Mathematics, a greater proportion of the Primary School curriculum focuses on Number so the latter two are often referred to together as Strand.

Observations and Anecdotal Evidence: Day to day evidence is gathered through teachers carefully listening to, monitoring and questioning your child during their day to day lessons/workshops. This often informs how the teacher will adjust the lesson to meet the needs of the learners as the lesson progresses and in future planning. 

Progressive Assessment Tests (PATs): are multiple-choice tests designed to help teachers determine achievement levels of children in Years 3 through 6. They are usually done once a year in March. For more information click here.