Mental Strategies – Explained!

Name: Mental Strategies – Explained!
Start: 2025-09-15T08:45:00+08:00
End: 2025-09-16T15:00:00+08:00
Location: Wembley Golf Course

Schedule

Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 at 08:45 am to Tue, 16 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Wembley Golf Course | Perth, WA

For:
Teachers Years 1-7 & Leaders
The new Curriculum places a lot of emphasis on the use of mental strategies to perform calculations.
You need this PL:
If you’re not sure what the ‘mental strategies’ are and when to teach them,
If your school has not clearly defined the difference between basic number facts and mental computation,
If you’re uncertain about terms like ‘recall’, ‘rapid recall’, ‘automatic recall’, ‘automaticity’, ’fluency’ …,
and if you do not have a year-by-year plan for teaching, practising and applying basic number facts (and beyond).
Agenda:
In this two-day PL Teachers will explore:
The Teach-Practice-Apply approach to embedding basic number facts in their Maths Program
The teaching of 390 basic addition subtraction, multiplication and division facts from years 1 to 4 and the subsequent opportunities for practice.
The setting of targets and the associated monitoring tools to determine whether students reach those targets
A planning approach to ensure the coherent development of Basic Number Facts and then mental computation across the school.