Good planning is worthwhile, especially when it is a collaborative process that feeds into a department's developing scheme of work. The main Components of a scheme of work will be: a curriculum map, giving an overview; the teaching calendar, setting out a schedule; and teaching units, using clusters of objectives to plan for progress through sequences of learning.
This new Framework for secondary mathematics provides sets of Mathematics learning objectives in a progression across both Key Stages 3 and 4. Planning for progression and continuity describes how to make best use of the new presentation of the objectives.
The Framework also provides sets of Assessment criteria which will help the department sharpen its processes of Assessment, target setting and pupil tracking for mathematics.
The approach to planning is supported by the Secondary mathematics planning toolkit, first published for Key Stage 4 in summer 2007, now revised in summer 2008. The toolkit comprises a disk and handbooks to support mathematics departments as they plan for teaching at both key stages.
