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IntroductionDuring the academic year 2013-14, a group of teachers met several times after school to examine how to place Reasoning at the heart of calculation teaching in Reasoning ? Why now?Problem solving, fluency and Reasoning : these are the key aims of the New National Curriculum and we want these to be strong threads that weave together in our mathematics teaching. However, although the New Curriculum is clear about the end of year expectations for children s calculation, there is no explicit guidance about how to build a culture of Reasoning in the will we assess children with no levels?.. through our questions!With the departure of curriculum levels, assessment will and should be based on teachers questioning; life after levels is all about the questions we ask! Levels were for tracking children s progress and attainment but true assessment is embedded in questioning.

Developing Reasoning The key to teaching calculation effectively A summary of the findings of a Joint Practice Development Group of the Camden Primary Partnership Teaching School Alliance

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