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EXTRA Motivation for Low Attainers

An Unusual Approach to Mathematics for Low Attainers – That Works !!

Students in our lower sets said, "We don't want a course that only does the easy stuff (a 'dumbo' course). We want to do the same work as everyone else.

So, will you please:
• make the instructions and explanations clearer
• introduce ideas more slowly and put in extra steps
• put in extra practice
• make the work interesting"
SO WE DID !

 

Each KS3 EXTRA course :

  • has been specially developed for low attainers
  • is a version of the the equivalent mainstream course
  • has lots of EXTRA practice on all techniques
  • can be run alongside the mainstream course
  • can stand on its own
  • is suitable for the lower 50% of the ability range

Each student:

  • takes responsibility for his/her own learning
  • can decide how much practice (s)he needs to do for each technique
  • can try Star Challenges when (s)he feels ready for them
  • will be capable of taking the mainstream tests

The authors firmly believe that all students can tackle the material in the mainstream course.
However, some students need :

  • more time to get to grips with the ideas and techniques involved
  • lots of EXTRA practice
  • complex instructions simplified
  • one idea at a time introduced step-by-step
  • to meet ideas and techniques over and over again

Most students in lower sets are underachieving. These texts aim to raise the level of achievement of such students.

Our EXTRA texts for LOW ATTAINERS do not follow the route used by so many other texts for these students. Instead of giving them lots of easy material, we took the syllabus and delivered it in such a way that LOW ATTAINERS could understand and cope with the ideas and techniques.

We Gave Them What They Had Asked For !!

But we couldn't have produced these texts had it not been for the active help of the students themselves. We started with the mainstream texts and students really enjoyed finding out what didn't work for them - but, more importantly, WHY!! They quickly became expert at pinpointing where the material didn't work for them and helping to find what would work for them.

Devising ways that would work took a lot of working/trialling with LOW ATTAINERS, but we ended up with the EXTRA texts – which work exceptionally well, particularly with bottom sets, disaffected students and students at Pupil Referral Units.

Y9 Pow Guide

For more information on the Y9 Pow Guide EXTRA follow this link.

For more information on the Y10 & Y11 Sureshot Guide EXTRA follow this link

 Sureshot Guide (Y10 & Y11)