Maths

Branxholme Wallacedale Community School provide a shared mathematical experience where all students can learn and succeed at their developmental level.

Our Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) mathematics approach means that all children can learn, and teachers can significantly improve achievement for all learners. This is through implementing effective well-crafted, well taught lessons to assist teachers to deliver effective instruction. This significantly lifts student achievement with lessons that maximise student learning across all areas of the Victorian Curriculum.

Key lesson delivery points

Review – slides that are spaced, interleaved, and allow for retrieval. These will be based on the students’ prior learning. It helps the children retain information

Fluency – Using counting, patterns, times tables or subitising

Intention of Lesson – what are the children learning

Teacher Focus – Activate prior knowledge, Teach and Check for Understanding

Independent Practice – Children work on the differentiated ‘hands-on’ tasks while the teacher is roaming

Closure – Students describe what they have learned, linking back to the lesson focus 

The teacher provides support within all the components of the lesson