Maths can appear daunting, and trying to assign grades to a piece of maths homework can seem impossible. There have been many attempts by the Department for Education to introduce standard criteria for teachers to aim for – one of the more recent was Key Stage 3 National Curriculum Levels. Now this has since been withdrawn, but not really replaced by anything. The skills themselves are still very valid (that will never change!) and the order in which they progress is no different than it was, so it is still perfectly possible to use the level indicators to track progress and work out what skills to learn next or, for more usefulness, what skills do they need to know in order to learn the next bit.
I put together a guide to National Curriculum Levels, alongside GCSE Grades (also since abolished in favour of numerical grades) and I am publishing it here.
Each of these sections contains skills in a particular skillset. To understand one item on there, each of the items to the left should already be consolidated. In general pupils will (at least roughly) learn skills of a similar level alongside each other, but this isn’t always the case. At the top of the page are the NC Levels (at the left of the column) and the GCSE Grades equivalent (at the right of the column).
Why do I need to learn Mathematics?
Lateral Thinking Starters
Classroom Posters
