Teaching Order for LC Maths

Moody_mona

Just wondering if anyone could offer advice for what to start with for fifth years? Also if anyone had a very general outline for what is covered in each year for Maths that would be amazing, junior or senior cycle. I'm starting from scratch and feeling very overwhelmed. I'll have a few chats with teachers I'm taking over from but if anyone could offer any advice in the meantime I'd really really appreciate it!

boogle

Hi mona, the following is the running order my Maths department worked from last year (don't have this year's done yet). It went ok apart from not getting Complex numbers done because of time missed and Project Maths taking waay longer than expected. This year's fifth year will be doing strands 1,2,3, and 4 from Project maths, so the timing on these could be off because they're based on the old course. Before you decide on this, look in your staffroom or ask Maths Dept head for the subject folders containing the schemes of work. If your Maths dept already has schemes of their own, you need to follow theirs and not your own.

Fifth Year Ordinary Level:
Algebra (3 weeks)
Statistics (4 weeks)
Co-ordinate Geometry - Line (6 weeks)
Area and Volume (4 weeks)
Algebra (4 weeks) (quadratic and cubic equations)
Complex Numbers (4 - 5 weeks)
Arithmetic (4 weeks)

Moody_mona

boogle wrote: »

Hi mona, the following is the running order my Maths department worked from last year (don't have this year's done yet). It went ok apart from not getting Complex numbers done because of time missed and Project Maths taking waay longer than expected. This year's fifth year will be doing strands 1,2,3, and 4 from Project maths, so the timing on these could be off because they're based on the old course. Before you decide on this, look in your staffroom or ask Maths Dept head for the subject folders containing the schemes of work. If your Maths dept already has schemes of their own, you need to follow theirs and not your own.

Fifth Year Ordinary Level:
Algebra (3 weeks)
Statistics (4 weeks)
Co-ordinate Geometry - Line (6 weeks)
Area and Volume (4 weeks)
Algebra (4 weeks) (quadratic and cubic equations)
Complex Numbers (4 - 5 weeks)
Arithmetic (4 weeks)

Really appreciate that boogle, thanks so much! I know I'll need to liase with maths department but just wanted to have an understanding of order and timings, so thats a great help :-D

slickmcvic

theres a sample scheme done by Project maths showing an order to teach topics in i dont know if its on the website or not but I think I was emailed a copy at some stage

Moody_mona

Hi slickmcvic,

I've tried searching for that sample scheme - you don't happen to have a link do you? Or the original email?

slickmcvic

Moody_mona wrote: »

Hi slickmcvic,

I've tried searching for that sample scheme - you don't happen to have a link do you? Or the original email?

PM sent

jonseyblub

slickmcvic wrote: »

PM sent

Would you mind PM me the info too. Thanks

jonseyblub

boogle wrote: »

Hi mona, the following is the running order my Maths department worked from last year (don't have this year's done yet). It went ok apart from not getting Complex numbers done because of time missed and Project Maths taking waay longer than expected. This year's fifth year will be doing strands 1,2,3, and 4 from Project maths, so the timing on these could be off because they're based on the old course. Before you decide on this, look in your staffroom or ask Maths Dept head for the subject folders containing the schemes of work. If your Maths dept already has schemes of their own, you need to follow theirs and not your own.

Fifth Year Ordinary Level:
Algebra (3 weeks)
Statistics (4 weeks)
Co-ordinate Geometry - Line (6 weeks)
Area and Volume (4 weeks)
Algebra (4 weeks) (quadratic and cubic equations)
Complex Numbers (4 - 5 weeks)
Arithmetic (4 weeks)

Real pain not being able to plan properly. Syllabus only came out last week and knowing the timing is very difficult.

mrboswell

In reality project maths has been more like chaos maths.