These resources provide invaluable support within the Key Maths series for all mathematics teachers, whether specialists or non-specialist, experienced or new to the profession.

These resources provide invaluable support within the Key Maths series for all mathematics teachers, whether specialists or non-specialist, experienced or new to the profession.

Fully in-line with the Framework for Teaching Mathematics, this series provides coverage of the curriculum intended to enable students to revise and consolidate key concepts. Every chapter contains questions in the style of the National Tests. The three Ma1 tasks in every students book have detailed marking guidance in the equivalent teacher file to support key assessment at the end of the key stage. The last resource section of this file contains a series of summary activities for new or previously absent teachers or pupils, covering all the chapters. Additions such as question banks and ICT CD-ROMs are available to provide further support.

A Teacher Support Pack is available for each year within Key Stage 3, providing full guidance on developing ICT throughout Key Stage 3 mathematics.

Planned, developed and written by practising classroom teachers with a wide variety of experience in schools, this maths course has been designed to be enjoyable and motivating for pupils and teachers. The course is open and accessible to pupils of all abilities and backgrounds, and is differentiated to provide material which is appropriate for all pupils. It provides spiral coverage of the curriculum which involves regular revisiting of key concepts to promote familiarity through practice. This teacher's file is designed for stage three of Year 9.

Developed for the CCEA Specification, this Teacher File contains detailed support and guidance on advanced planning, points of emphasis, key words, notes for the non-specialist, useful supplementary ideas and homework sheets.

These resources provide invaluable support within the Key Maths series for all mathematics teachers, whether specialists or non-specialist, experienced or new to the profession.

Developed for the AQA Specification, revised for the new National Curriculum and the new GCSE specifications. The Teacher File contains detailed support and guidance on advanced planning, points of emphasis, key words, notes for non-specialist, useful supplementary ideas and homework sheets.

This report (HCP 44, session 2009-10, ISBN 9780215542663) from the Science and Technology Committee looks at literacy programmes evidence check and concludes that expectations by the Department for Children, Schools and Families of the quality of the evidence base for reading programmes are worryingly low. It urges the Government to commission randomised controlled trials (RCTs). The Committee also states it is particularly concerned about the quality of evidence demonstrating cost-effectiveness of different programmes and further recommends that the Government reviews its guidelines on RCT design; it says even Wikipedia is more thorough and informative. The Committee also concludes, that: the Government's focus on early literacy interventions and phonics-based teaching is based on the best available evidence; the use of Reading Recovery is based on a lower quality of evidence than the Committee is comfortable with and that the decision to introduce Reading Recovery nationally is not evidence based. The Committee further expressed alarm that there was a complete lack of randomised controlled trials using standardised test scores for the Reading Recovery programme in the UK school system, before national implementation of the programme.