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Put yourself in control of your curriculum

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It has enhanced teaching and allowed staff time to think about their teaching. - Allyson Leak, Deputy Head Teacher, St. James C.E, UK

With Abacus Evolve, you’ll be freed up to focus on the ‘important bits’ such as how you want to teach rather than what to teach. Use assessments to feed your planning rather than worrying about how or when to fit assessment in. At the heart of Abacus Evolve is the I-Planner – a revolutionary planning and assessment tool.

4 reasons to love I-Planner 1.

everything you need in one place, and accessible online whenever and wherever.

2. Create and personalise plans quickly and easily ensuring the needs of all your children are met.

I-Planner keeps notes of those children who need support or extension so that you can adapt your plans based on your children’s needs.

Use the default plans as a base to your own planning, then re-arrange and personalise them to suit you.

3. access hundreds of learning and teaching resources at your fingertips that can be integrated into your plans at any time. Print, export or share your plans with colleagues at the click of a button.

4. easily capture and record assessment information that will feed back into plans to help you with Assessment for Learning and APP.

Teacher Toolkits

Take the pressure off having to be everywhere at once, and direct your attention where it’s needed most using the classroom management and teaching assistant support suggestions.

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Alongside the I-Planner are the Teacher Toolkits. Each contains an Interactive Teaching Resources CD-ROM (ready-made activities with teaching notes), 30 teacher cards (one for each week of teaching) and a Getting Started Guide. Together, with the I-Planner, it offers everything you need to get going.

Teach and inspire all learners

Keep on top of pupil progress

abacus evolve has excellent instructional design. It focuses on using and applying mathematics with hands-on and verbal tasks. It is flexible to meet the needs of teachers and students. Teachers can be confident to use the teaching plans creatively and the colour coding supports teaching decisions to match specific learner needs.

Extensive assessment support is delivered as part of the I-Planner and Assessment Kits. They support summative and formative assessment, reviewing prior learning, pupil tracking and APP (Assessing Pupils Progress).

Assessment in I-Planner

The programme is structured around:

With just a few clicks, you can:

• Mental oral starter for hard thinking

• Record your class’s progress at the end of a day, week or block.

• Explicit main teaching and assessment tools

• Create ongoing learning reports summarising where your whole class and individual children are.

• Hands-on activities to differentiate learners • Digital and print activities to keep learners engaged

• Generate alerts at the relevant points in your planning to enable you to act upon your assessments.

• Talking tasks to help with verbal communication • Cross-curricula links to apply maths • Plenary to summarize learning.

See at a glance how each pupil is progressing against each goal.

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Year 5 Challenge Textbook

“Saves time, provides variety, suggests differentiation, easy to use, provides reassurance... What a clever little package!”

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If you have time own thermometer: Children could make their coloured water. Use with 200 ml of lukewarm 1. Half fill a small bottle neck of the bottle a drinking straw into the modelling clay to seal rest is sticking out. is in the water and the so that 5 cm of the straw get into the bottle. Make sure that no air can which is sticking card to the section of straw 2. Stick a strip of white temperatures. mark to which on out of the bottle, room temperature. the water has cooled to 3. Leave the bottle until Mark the water slightly. should drop The water level in the straw re of the room with a real temperatu the Take card. level on the mark. that number next to your thermometer and write of hot water. This a pan filled with 200 ml 4. Now put the bottle into the water rise up the in the bottle and make will warm up the water mark the new level level has stopped rising, straw. Once the water in the pan and write temperature of the water on the straw. Take the mark. your to next number lines between that er, mark equally-spaced 5. To complete your thermometin the missing temperatures. write your two numbers and

Keep notes on which children need support or extension, or were absent. These notes will then feed back into your planning. A wide range of teaching and assessment tools allow you to plan according to the needs of your learners.

Outcomes Be aware essentially the same and degrees Celsius are d from • Degrees centigrade children should be discourage measurement. However common use and as this has fallen from using the term centigrade term. Celsius is the preferred

of saying there are different ways • I can understand that temperatures. in order. negative temperatures temperatures. • I can put positive and between positive and negative • I can find differences

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Assessment Tasks and Review Tasks provide practical activities that are ideal for day-to-day and periodic assessment.

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Engage your learners with inspirational print and online learning.

All of the Assessment and Review Tasks and Tests in I-Planner are also available in printed format as part of the Assessment Kits. They include a handy introduction to the different types of assessment, best practice for using them and guidance on how to get the most out of them in the classroom.

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Motivate and engage learners

Problem-solving activities

The Zone is a new website packed with vibrant interactive activities and games that today’s digital natives will love using at home and at school.

The problem-solving activities in The Zone consist of motivating, open-ended activities that encourage collaboration to develop strategies and solve problems. They also include maths problems in real contexts with BBC video clips, to help children develop real problem-solving skills.

access everything in one place – quickly and easily access activities and games for maths practice, speaking and listening and problem-solving altogether in one online bank.

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easy-to-use allocation system - your teacher login allows you to allocate maths practice games to support your teaching, and generate a results report.

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motivate and engage children - individual logins for each child give access to their own fun and personalised zone where they can complete activities and games that have been assigned to them, and collect rewards.

Maths practice games Developed in collaboration with online games experts, the all new maths practice games help children embed key maths skills and rehearse maths facts through lively and exciting, modern maths games. Not only will children be more motivated to do their maths practice at home and at school, you can also use them on the interactive whiteboard to get the whole class playing together.

Speaking and listening activities The bright and colourful speaking and listening activities in The Zone actively involve children working and talking together to find solutions to maths problems.

“My children love Abacus Evolve resources as they are educational, stimulating and challenging. The children progress quickly through fun and engaging active lessons.” Mulkeet Sansoya, Maths Coordinator, Hillcrest Primary School, UK

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Support for all learners

Every classroom is different. Within each class there is a real mixture of children with different learning needs. Abacus Evolve includes a range of teaching and learning resources that can be used in the way you want, to suit your particular learners needs.

Perfect for English Language learners, Abacus Evolve offers support in many ways. •

A literacy-rich learning environment develops language skills.

• Strong visual support helps to engage learners.

Pupil books to keep children on task The bright and colourful textbooks and workbooks in Abacus Evolve are brilliant for keeping children engaged and motivated. Fun practise tasks help to consolidate learning. Textbooks can be used flexibly: •

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Hands-on tasks give sensory stimuli.

• W orkbooks support demonstration and consolidate learning. • Academic vocabulary helps scaffold mathematical language.

as a core activity

• a practical activity for enquiry-based learning • an extension activity with a problem-solving focus.

Support for your mixed-age classes For schools with mixed-age classes, Abacus Evolve teaching resources include mixed-age Teacher Toolkits and I-Planner. This unique solution gives teachers with mixed-age classes everything needed to plan and assess simultaneously for two year groups. The mixed-age Toolkits and I-Planner are available for: • Foundation / Year 1 • Year 1 / Year 2 • Year 2 / Year 3 • Year 3 / Year 4 • Year 4 / Year 5 • Year 5 / Year 6.

Abacus Evolve Challenge has been created specifically for gifted and more able children and their teachers. • extend children’s learning with a fourth level of differentiation and explore activities at greater depth, breadth and pace than general class level.

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• advice on recognising and supporting gifted and able children.

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Meet the needs of your gifted children

What’s included core subscription includes

mixed-age subscription includes

also available

Foundation

stage

Teacher Toolkit

Year 1

I-Planner

The Zone

The Zone

The Zone

The Zone

The Zone

I-Planner

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The Zone

The Zone

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

The Zone

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

The Zone

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

The Zone

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

The Zone

Teacher Toolkit

Year 6

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

Teacher Toolkit

Year 5

I-Planner

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

Year 4

I-Planner

The Zone

Teacher Toolkit

Year 3

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

Teacher Toolkit

Year 2

I-Planner

I-Planner

Teacher Toolkit

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Join abacus evolve Abacus Evolve isn’t an ordinary maths programme – think of it as a maths service, packed with superb planning, teaching, learning and assessment tools, and resources. To join, you simply need to subscribe as a member on an annual basis. Depending on your needs, you can then personalise the core service with workbooks, textbooks – and more.

Sign up for a free 60 day trial Find out what makes Abacus Evolve so special by signing up to our free 60 day trial. Visit our website for more information www.pearsonglobalschools.com/abacusevolve Contact your local Pearson consultant for more information on the best package for you. www.pearsonglobalschools.com/contact

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