Intervening for Learning in Maths
Intervening for Learning is for all learners: for every student in every classroom, for those for whom learning is a challenge, and those for whom extension of learning ensures continued success and engagement.
Selecting an Intervention
A guide to selecting an intervention.
Educators are constantly seeking effective ways to meet the needs of all learners so that every student can experience success. Students learn and achieve differently or have particular talents, and teachers are required to adapt their teaching by identifying student learning needs, differentiating the curriculum, continually monitoring progress, making adjustments and intervening early when progress stalls (Catholic Education Melbourne).
Choosing the ‘right’ approach for students requiring targeted teaching or intervention can be challenging. This video offers guidance to schools in selecting student intervention strategies and programs.
Resources to Support Maths Understanding
The Learning Difficulties Information Guide - Numeracy
This guide offers a foundation for understanding learning difficulties in numeracy and what teachers can do to support students.
The Learning Difficulties Information Guide for School Leaders
This Department of Education Victoria guide offers a foundation for understanding learning difficulties and school wide responses to support students.
What is Dyscalculia?
Dyscalculia is a term referring to a wide range of difficulties with learning mathematics. Learn more about Dyscalculia and access resources to support student learning.
Dyscalculia - Why so Many Children Struggle with Numbers
The Conversation overviews and discusses Dyscalculia and its lifelong implications on student learning.
The Extending Mathematical Understanding Program (EMU) was developed by Dr Ann Gervasoni. EMU is a research based professional learning program offering teachers expertise and leadership in mathematics learning.
Holy Cross Primary’s whole school deep dive into numeracy: Extending Mathematical Understanding (EMU).
Resources to Extend Maths Learning
Primary Learning
This resource maps NRICH tasks to the Australian Curriculum descriptors for Measurement and Geometry. Also find resources for Number and Algebra and Statistics and Probability.
Maths Olympiads
High achieving students can put their problem solving skills to the test and compete alongside thousands of students from Australia and New Zealand.
Australian Maths Trust
Competitions and programs to extend and challenge students.
Enabling and Extending Prompts
Sullivan, Mousley and Zevenbergen (2006) describe adaptations to a main problem task as a means to support students who experience difficulty and extend the thinking of students who complete the task quickly.
A short film about how labelling students ‘gifted’ can have negative impacts on learning later in life.