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Progress tracking for Level 1

New progress tracking sheets for level 1 have been added to the members area. Find them in the assessment folder under Teacher Professional resources heading and in the Teacher PLD folder under the Foundation resources heading....

Assessment Screens

Thank you Charlotte for the Assessment Screen tool for Level 3 Mathematics. It is valuable in that it clearly shows what the students can do on their own, what they need to learn more about and it has highlighted misunderstandings and misconceptions they may have especially around fractions as a number. One student who is very clearly working within the top of level 3 told me that you can’t put fractions on a numberline because they are not numbers! Their views of both fractional and decimal n...

Updated Practice Workbook

Two of the Level 1a Maths Aotearoa practice workbooks have been updated. New versions are now available in the members area....

Membership Update

A Christmas folder has been added to the student resources folder....

December Newsletter

This newsletter looks at the role of the teacher in the mathematics classroom through a diagram looking at a cycle of pedagogical practice to include deliberate acts of teaching, practice time, exploration and discovery....

Using Charlotte Wilkinson for centrally funded PLD

Charlotte Wilkinson is an accredited facilitator ACC#654. She works under the umbrella of the Accredited Training Provider Learning Adventures NZ. A training provider set up as a collaboration between independent facilitators....

Ordering product on a school invoice

Ordering product on the online store requires use of credit card through PayPal. If you would like a school invoice then email me your order charlotte@ncwilkinsons.com and I iwll send the product with an invoice. Please note School orders only not personal orders....

November Newsletter

This newsletter looks at the difference between learning to do maths and gaining a conceptual understanding of mathematics. ...

Order 2021 Assessment Screens Now

Complete the order form to pre order your assessment screens at the discount price. Screens are delivered for the start of term one. Pay on invoice or defer payment until February 2021...

October 2020 Newsletter

This months newsletter looks at using technology to support a maths programme. Use technology not be used by technology....

Members Feedback

School: St Mary's Primary SchoolMessage: Work with Year 2/3 class as well as Special Needs Students. I do like the resources that you have. Thank you. ...

Answers to Graduated Problems

I do not provide answers to the Graduated Problems on a Theme. The reason is to promote mathematical argumentation and proof. If students get different solutions they need to justify their solution by explaining, arguing and proving their solution. Sometimes both parties can be correct as interpretation of the problem can differ. Students (and teachers) need to move beyond mathematics being right or wrong....

Membership Update

Twelve student workbooks to use independently or to support Maths Aotearoa Level 1a (Due to be published later this year) are now available under Maths Aotearoa Workbooks section....

Assessment Screening

It is nearly time to order the Wilkie Way Mathematical Knowledge and Skills Assessment screen for 2021. Download the pdf to find out what it screens at level 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the NZ curriculum. An investment in your students future....

Membership Update

More games for practicing multiplication facts have been added to level 2 and level 3 multiplication and division in the student resources sections.Two more graduated problems on a theme have been added - Covid 19 problems and Time problems...

Recommended website

If you don't already know the site mathsbot.com then go to this site and look at the manipulatives section. Especially when working with year 5 and upwards you can use all your manipulatives on screen. Place value blocks, number lines, cusenaire and much more. Projected onto a screen for class and group demonstration and discussion and back at their desks for follow up practice. ...

Maths & Learning Through Play

I have uploaded a newsletter in which I wrote an article for teachers/schools thinking about moving towards play-based learning....

Membership update

Games for practicing the distributive property for learning multiplication facts  x 6   x 7 x 8 and x 9 have been added to Student Resources Multiplication & Division Level 3 ...

Numeracy Baseline Assessment

A baseline assessment for numeracy was created by a group of junior teachers and early childhood teachers from Gisborne with assistance from Numeracy Expert Charlotte Wilkinson. It is free for all teachers to use....

September Newsletter

This newsletter looks at Developing the Language of Mathematics and the steps students need to go through to move known language to symbolic language....

Answers for Concept Word Problems

The teacher notes and answers for the concept word problems in the membership area can only be found as the last file in each of the levels under the heading Concept Word Problems.The word problems will also appear under the operation heading, for example problems involving addition and subtraction concepts will also appear under the heading addition and subtraction. You will need to go to the concept word problem file to find the teacher notes and answers which cover all the problems in each le...

Where is the HOME button?

The Wilkie Way trademark star on the top lefthand corner is the home button. Click here from any page to get back to the home page....

Timed Tests

Timed tests at primary level when students are learning to make sense of the number system and number operations create maths anxiety in the very students who are finding maths difficult. Maths Anxiety is the single biggest learning difficulty so using timed tests will widen the gap between able and struggling students rather than close the gaps. See the Wilkie Way assessment screens in the online store as an alternative. ...

July/August Newsletter

This newsletter looks at using historical facts to create a meaningful context . This month looks at the development of a standard unit of time, the invention of a calendar. The first newsletter of the term it also contains graduated problems on the theme of Time....

Wilkie Way Resources

Thanks Charlotte for continuing to provide thoughtful, valuable and stimulating articles and resources. I look forward to each edition of Wilkie Way. I love how you construct suitable and topical problem solving at several levels, it sparks off new ideas and thinking for how I can apply this in my teaching,Keep up the challenge to our maths teaching. Online store...