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School: St Mary's Primary SchoolMessage: Work with Year 2/3 class as well as Special Needs Students. I do like the resources that you have. Thank you. ...

Answers to Graduated Problems

I do not provide answers to the Graduated Problems on a Theme. The reason is to promote mathematical argumentation and proof. If students get different solutions they need to justify their solution by explaining, arguing and proving their solution. Sometimes both parties can be correct as interpretation of the problem can differ. Students (and teachers) need to move beyond mathematics being right or wrong....

Membership Update

Twelve student workbooks to use independently or to support Maths Aotearoa Level 1a (Due to be published later this year) are now available under Maths Aotearoa Workbooks section....

Assessment Screening

It is nearly time to order the Wilkie Way Mathematical Knowledge and Skills Assessment screen for 2021. Download the pdf to find out what it screens at level 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the NZ curriculum. An investment in your students future....

Membership Update

More games for practicing multiplication facts have been added to level 2 and level 3 multiplication and division in the student resources sections.Two more graduated problems on a theme have been added - Covid 19 problems and Time problems...

Recommended website

If you don't already know the site mathsbot.com then go to this site and look at the manipulatives section. Especially when working with year 5 and upwards you can use all your manipulatives on screen. Place value blocks, number lines, cusenaire and much more. Projected onto a screen for class and group demonstration and discussion and back at their desks for follow up practice. ...

Maths & Learning Through Play

I have uploaded a newsletter in which I wrote an article for teachers/schools thinking about moving towards play-based learning....

Membership update

Games for practicing the distributive property for learning multiplication facts  x 6   x 7 x 8 and x 9 have been added to Student Resources Multiplication & Division Level 3 ...

Numeracy Baseline Assessment

A baseline assessment for numeracy was created by a group of junior teachers and early childhood teachers from Gisborne with assistance from Numeracy Expert Charlotte Wilkinson. It is free for all teachers to use....

September Newsletter

This newsletter looks at Developing the Language of Mathematics and the steps students need to go through to move known language to symbolic language....

Answers for Concept Word Problems

The teacher notes and answers for the concept word problems in the membership area can only be found as the last file in each of the levels under the heading Concept Word Problems.The word problems will also appear under the operation heading, for example problems involving addition and subtraction concepts will also appear under the heading addition and subtraction. You will need to go to the concept word problem file to find the teacher notes and answers which cover all the problems in each le...

Where is the HOME button?

The Wilkie Way trademark star on the top lefthand corner is the home button. Click here from any page to get back to the home page....

Timed Tests

Timed tests at primary level when students are learning to make sense of the number system and number operations create maths anxiety in the very students who are finding maths difficult. Maths Anxiety is the single biggest learning difficulty so using timed tests will widen the gap between able and struggling students rather than close the gaps. See the Wilkie Way assessment screens in the online store as an alternative. ...

July/August Newsletter

This newsletter looks at using historical facts to create a meaningful context . This month looks at the development of a standard unit of time, the invention of a calendar. The first newsletter of the term it also contains graduated problems on the theme of Time....

Wilkie Way Resources

Thanks Charlotte for continuing to provide thoughtful, valuable and stimulating articles and resources. I look forward to each edition of Wilkie Way. I love how you construct suitable and topical problem solving at several levels, it sparks off new ideas and thinking for how I can apply this in my teaching,Keep up the challenge to our maths teaching. Online store...

PD Workshops

We found the workshops very useful and as always we find Charlotte's approach to Mathematics learning is clear, logical and easily followed.    Aria SchoolThanks a lot for the great PD. I loved it. It's the first time I've really enjoyed maths!   Otonga SchoolThanks for another thought provoking and informative workshop. At both courses I have attended with you I have come away feeling maths is my main interest in teaching, just a shame I can't do it all day!...

Professional Development

Charlotte aims to accelerate learner outcomes and student achievement by enhancing teacher effectiveness through the delivery of ongoing, high quality professional development. I have worked alongside Charlotte as the lead teacher of mathematics in my school. I have found her delivery of the professional development to be effective in driving accountability and raising the teachers' awareness of their own teaching practice and pedagogical knowledge in mathematics.Charlotte's style of modelling f...