Monday, 22 March 2010

Maths : Problems in Words

This has been identified as being a problem area during recent assessment.

We created a document using Test Base which contained all of the
Level4 questions from all the old SATs papers.

Together we brought each question up in turn and completed it on an
individual basis

Once we all had an answer we would consider the method used to solve
the problem.

We discovered that the actual maths was quite simple once we had
unravelled the problem.

The problems were often in two steps.

We pointed out some of the tricks and traps used by the testers to
misdirect pupils.

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