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Planning from the National Numeracy Strategy
Relationship to National Curriculum level descriptions
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Framework for teaching mathematics
The overall target is for at least 75% of 11-year-olds, by 2002, to achieve level 4 in the National Curriculum tests for mathematics. The year-by-year programmes are designed with this target in mind.
The programmes also take account of the need in mathematics to revisit topics regularly to revise and consolidate skills and then extend them. They may, at first, seem ambitious. But if 11-year-olds are to achieve a secure level 4 when tested in the summer of Year 6, the teaching programme needs to be pitched at a level which is a little beyond this.
The expectations in the yearly teaching programmes correspond to these levels.
- Year 1 level 1, and start on level 2
- Year 2 consolidation of level 2, and start on level 3
- Year 3 revision of level 2, but mainly level 3
- Year 4 consolidation of level 3, and start on level 4
- Year 5 revision of level 3, but mainly level 4
- Year 6 consolidation of level 4, and start on level 5
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