Teacher Support

This intuitive tool allows teachers to build a family of pre- or mid-tests for a unit of work to identify gaps in student knowledge. 

Teachers can then set follow-up work using the Interactive Textbook resources such as video demonstrations for worked examples, Now You Try questions and further practice questions to help address these gaps. 

A system-generated post-test allows teachers to check again for understanding. 

A range of reports on class and individual results give teachers important insight into student growth and attainment.

TARGETED OLNA SUPPORT, DESIGNED TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO STUDENT SUCCESS

NEW print and digital numeracy support features help students from Year 7 onward, progressing from foundation numeracy to full OLNA-style preparation by Year 10.

Numeracy skills check tools with diagnostic capabilities in the digital resources help teachers identify learning gaps across key problem-solving stages. 

Teachers can assign walkthroughs, videos and practice tests to guide students through every stage of learning and help ease anxiety surrounding areas of lower proficiency. 

A bank of practice ONLA-style questions can be assigned by topic or set up as a mock ONLA test. Questions can be assigned online for auto-marking. 

The Year 10 resources provide additional targeted support for both students and their teachers as they prepare for the OLNA, alongside a continued focus on numeracy understanding.

DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT TOOL TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE

Similarities in the structure of the Year 7-9 CORE series and the mainstream Essential Mathematics series allow teachers to run them in parallel and provide the flexibility to transition students to the standard course before Year 10. 

Two separate working programs are subtly embedded in every exercise in the student text, offering ‘Growth’ and ‘Standard’ pathways throughout. 

More emphasis is placed on revision with clearly labelled Consolidating sections. Gold Star sections provide an extra challenge while remaining fully aligned with the Western Australian Curriculum. 

Opportunities for extension, including Year 10 Optional material drawn from the WA curriculum and dedicated Extending sections that go beyond the syllabus, create accessible pathways from CORE.

RESOURCES TAILORED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF LOWER AND MIDDLE ABILITY STUDENTS WITH THE FLEXIBILITY TO TEACH IN PARALLEL WITH THE MAINSTREAM COURSE

NEW TOOLS FOR LESSON PLANNING AND PRESENTATION

PowerPoint documents for classroom presentation include the Lesson Starter, Key Ideas, Building Understanding questions, Worked Examples and Now You Try questions for each section. Teachers can use these presentations to guide lessons, focus students’ attention and promote class or group discussion before students work on exercise questions.

DOWNLOADABLE, READY-TO USE TEACHING RESOURCES 

Worked solutions for all exercises. Teachers can choose to make them available to students in the Interactive Textbook. 

Editable worksheets and solutions. 

Literacy activity sheets, Maths@Work worksheets and Investigations. 

Skillsheets that focus on a single skill or small set of related skills and can be set for homework or completed in class. 

Additional modelling activities give teachers the flexibility to delve deeper into each step of the modelling process and foster discussion of constraints, assumptions and making effective choices about the mathematics employed to solve context-based problems.

Teachers can find these resources in their Online Teaching Suite: