KS3 COURSE OVERVIEW

 

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Thinking Maths

You will see TM throughout the Year 7 and 8 frameworks. This stands for Thinking Maths and is when pupils will be taught a lesson from the CAME project – Cognitive Acceleration in Mathematics Education.

“CAME intends to move pupils from the 'concrete operational process' (a descriptive process) to a 'formal operational process' (a reasoning process). Much of the secondary mathematics syllabus (level 6 and upward) requires formal operational thinking.

This suggests that without implicitly using this process pupils are unlikely to achieve a grade C at GCSE. The CAME project was started originally to help increase the proportion of year 10 pupils (currently about 28%) who demonstrate some ability to think formally.”
Doug Averis (Keele University)

The department has been trained to deliver these lessons and as a result our students will learn to understand how they solve problems by working with others and sharing solutions.