1. Year 7 Maths What we offer Where to get information
Supporting your daughter

2. Year 7 mathematics course
Mixed ability classes
Common assessments
Additional support in the classroom
No calculators
Super Maths/Science – one teacher, 5 x75 min lessons a week
Purposeful Teaching of Maths
Similar in year 8 followed by a few more options in Yr 9 and Yr 10

3. Where to get information
Students will have homework in their diaries and worksheets in their maths work book
This information is published on the portal
You can use this to check how your daughter is going with homework
Assessment outcomes are also published on the portal
Feel free to their teachers if you have questions

9. How you can help Tables: assumed knowledge for year 7
Work through one set of tables per week/fortnight
Revision at home/around the house
The goal is to have automatic recall of multiplication tables by mid-year
Homework: approximately 20 minutes of homework on the days when they have a maths lesson

10. Supervising maths homework
When helping your daughter, use leading questions
Can you find a similar question you did in class or a worked example in the text book?
What do you think you do next?
If you had to guess the next step, what would you do?
Have you read the question more than once?
What did you learn from that mistake?
Have you checked the answer?

11. The purpose of this style of questioning is to give your daughter strategies for answering her own questions and feeling confident in her own abilities
The trick is that you don’t have to know what they are doing, you just have to ask the right questions so they can explain their thinking to you

12. Websites http://www.mathsisfun.com/ http://www.mathsonline.com.au/