Julie Brewer – författare

This Teacher Guide is a planning and teaching support manual for delivering the early level numeracy and mathematics Curriculum for Excellence. It is a flexible resource which can be used alongside teachers’ existing planning, resources and scheme of work. It is the first Teacher Guide for Scotland completely aligned to the benchmarks. Provides lots of support for planning and delivering the early level curriculumPacked with creative ideas for numeracy stations and numerate play as well as group and whole-class workSupports teachers’ own CPD, with lots of information about teaching for mastery, using the concrete, pictorial, abstract approach, and ensuring conceptual understanding alongside procedural fluencyGuidance on questioning and observing assists teachers to make judgements about pupils’ achievementIdentifies potential misconceptions and how to address themHelps teachers save time with resource lists and key vocabularyClear layout for teachers to dip in and out and quickly reference content they need

The Primary Maths for Scotland Early Level Record Book can be used to assess achievement of the early level benchmarks and to demonstrate mastery of early level.This is a pupil-facing booklet which can be used as a formative or summative assessment of a child’s mastery of the early level benchmarks.• Each page requires the child to complete an exercise to demonstrate mastery of an aspect of the early level curriculum• Mastery of the entire early level curriculum can be demonstrated by completing the Record Book• Can be used as evidence of attainment as well as an assessment check for the teacher• Helps support children moving into a more formal setting and beginning first level• No pupil-facing text to obscure the mathematics• Friendly, colourful and engaging pages make the books fun for children