Pupil Progress Meetings (PPM) provide a regular timetabled forum for analysis and discussion of the factors that have supported pupil progress and identifies, collaboratively, actions that overcome barriers to learning. They require teachers to share evidence drawn from their day to day and periodic assessments. The meetings provide a forum to answer questions posed by the data within pupil tracking and enable schools to move tracking off the page into actions for learning. They also provide an opportunity to demonstrate and celebrate success.
Download Portable Document Format (.pdf)This booklet contains several ways of helping pupils to approach problem solving in KS3 mathematics lessons. It is limited in its scope and only explores some of the available material. In the appendix you will find references to other approaches. All mathematics questions are about solving problems. In this booklet we are specifically looking at questions that are provided in the form of words and consider strategies which might help pupils translate the words into mathematics.
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