Questions for reviewing oral and mental work in mathematics teaching and learning

• Within each strand, what opportunities are there for children to rehearse and what do they rehearse?
• Are there key facts, other than number facts, that children should recall quickly and accurately?
• How does oral and mental work provide children with the opportunity to refresh and consolidate their previous learning?
• How does oral and mental work help children to refine, reinforce and use, with increasing precision, key aspects of mathematics across all strands?
• What mathematics do children read? Is reading mathematics a feature of each strand and what role does the oral and mental work play?
• How is children's ability to reason developed by oral and mental work? How is this work planned and organised across all strands?