Michael Ymer Planning Day 28/11/2018

Michael Ymer
maths assessment early years video
Website Index
Levels listed on the website

Michael’s original website

1 Prep
2 1-2
3 3-4
4 5-6
5 7-8
6 9-10

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australian curr work samples

Essential assessment is DCPS Pre Testing Tool/ Program

Active Inspire App IS THE APP THAT HE USES WITH THE DESK AND MATERIALS
FOR DEMO
Numeracy is the connection between things in the world and things that are maths
Get real money in your room from students that will go towards something for the school but
will use it throughout the year

Folders
Activities
Assessment
Resources
Teaching primary mathematics – Ed 5 G Booker, D Bond, L Sparrow P Swan – teaching
knowledge
Number Sense: A McIntosh, B Reys, R. Reys,

Math tools
Managing mathematics classroom
- Set up the
- Balance standing and sitting
- Organise maths materials
- Collects materials from different places around the room to help with congestion
- Provide different entry and exit points for activity planned
o Before you go in what are you going to do about the kids that can’t add 6 and
3
- Different grouping approaches
- Use the same book as the students
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Promethean

Australian Scope and Sequence – Google

Planning framework
- You keep yourself updates
- You are a GP
- Elaborations are not the curriculum they are examples
- Teaching multi age grades – Need to be open to doing both in your class because 3/4
might have someone working at grade 1 and some at grade 5 level
- Starting at the beginning of the year, start with the level below
- Term 1 is numerations not computation
- Numeration is all year
o Fractions is not a topic it’s open ended
o Skip count by ½ ¾ etc
o Renaming use a number wall or ruler
- Term 4 is revisiting everything
o Together as a team you would sit together at the end of term 3 and highlight
everything you got done in green, orange you may need to go over and red you
must get done
- Comparing weather across the world in February when it’s boiling for us but freezing
for overseas countries.
o Integers, mean, mode, line graphs
New activity
How much cake will I get?
Working your way through the tables of cake
Students come in one by one or all sit around a table with 3 tables of cake – 1 cake, 2 cakes
and 3 cakes on separate tables

Comparing fractions
Partner game
Comparing fractions
Roll 2 dice, the smaller number goes on the top of the fraction and the bottom number is the
bigger number. Compare numbers with your partner and then record who’s is bigger etc.
Play rounds and add up points.

Using clock faces, record with colourful sticks to show and dice to roll for the

Less than Greater than Fraction

Steph <> Laura Steph Laura
6/6 > 2/3 1 0
3/3 = 6/6 1 1
2/3 < 4/5 0 1
1/6 < 1/4 0 1

Think about vocabulary throughout everything

Developing teacher knowledge
- Only read what is relevant don’t read a whole book at the beginning of the year you
will forget
Step 4
Principals of effective teaching and learning
What are the features of quality maths lesson

There is no ideal assessment tool

Do you plan your questions before the lessons?

Idea with assessing reading numbers

Using a calculator to assess reading numbers
Students being informed of what they can and cannot do when being assessed is important
Students should be the first person that fins out how they are going

Examples of things to do in the classroom

Games / activity that can be done in the morning or anything every week Monday
morning
Activity in the classroom, involving the outside world
Activity
Spread sheet
Barrack for Collingwood

Round Score Rounded 10,000 Running total

1 85923 86000 8685923
2 89301 89300 Add together

Use the events in the area – authentic –

e.g.
Royal Melbourne Show
Footy
Racing
Cricket

Problem Solving Folder

Make open ended
Simple- relatable – e.g. pizza party
Stand in the middle of the classroom and direct children to each other. They come up and ask
you questions etc and you direct them to students you know have the answers.
Ask the shortest possible question.
Allow them to find their own data
Be less helpful