Inquiry 2019 - The Background & Getting Underway...

My inquiry this year is centred around a group of students who are just below curriculum expectations in Maths.
They are Year 6s and are working around Early Level 3 and appear to have some misconceptions around math strategies.

My inquiry question is: "How effective are the Bruce Moody Diagnostic Questions & Tracking Sheet in identifying next steps and accelerating progress for meeting expectations."

We have Bruce Moody facilitating our Professional Development this year.  We also have access to his Seed Maths website.

Our staff have had several sessions with Bruce so far this year, unpacking his progressions and tracking sheets.  The expectation is that all staff will be using these sheets across the school in the near future.

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The strengths of the group are 2 digit addition with no borrowing & regrouping; multiplication tables of 2x, 5x and 10x (in that form - interestingly a question about pairs had them stumped); and multiplicative derivatives.  The kids also all like maths and are eager to learn more and be better than before, which is always an added bonus!

To consolidate where I think the students are working, I have taken Bruce's diagnostic questions and have had the students show working and give answers to the questions.  I have had one on one conversations with each of the students getting them to explain their working.

As we can see, there are a variety of successes - but as above, strengths are addition and multiplication with early times tables.  

Pink is known & correct working; yellow is right track but not yet consistently accurate and green is working on.


This has shown the where to next for this group and I will be sharing this information with the kids so that they are having input and buy in to their successes.