How Will I Know About My Child's
Development?
EIGHT LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT
The mathematics curriculum is organised to show clearly the standard of student
achievement. Each of the strands is described in eight levels of 'achievement
objectives'.
EXAMPLES OF ACHIEVEMENT OBJECTIVES
'communicating' and 'geometry' at level 2 - exploring shape and space
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to describe and
interpret position, using the language of direction and distance.
'problem solving' and 'number' at level 3 - exploring computation and estimation
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to solve practical
problems which require finding fractions of whole number and decimal amounts.
'reasoning' and 'statistics' at level 7 - interpreting statistical reports
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to analyse and
discuss statistically-based inferences about populations or experiments.
The achievement objectives are written for teachers' use. Many of the words in
the examples above (for example, 'statistically-based inferences') are specialist
terms which need to be part of teachers' understanding.
These will usually be more complex at higher levels as students learn to handle
more difficult material.
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Children will be work towards the level 1 objectives during their first two years
of primary school, and may develop to level 8 by the end of senior secondary school.
The following diagram shows how a standard two child could be working at level
1 or level 2:
CATERING FOR INDIVIDUAL
NEEDS
Students in the same class can be working at different levels.
A student could also be working at different levels in each of the strands.
A TOOL TO ASSESS LEARNING
Teachers' assessments will help to keep you informed, and also assist teachers
to plan the best programmes for your child.
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