IB Primary Years Programme

Oxford Mathematics Primary Years Programme (PYP) supports students in constructing and transferring meaning, and applying skills and knowledge to their learning.

Part of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) programme, it incorporates an inquiry learning approach, supporting the PYP transdisciplinary themes and skills, and covers the PYP Mathematics scope and sequence.

The series includes:

• Pre-assessments for every topic, allowing teachers to check students’ previous understandings and identify their points of need
• Active learning, hands-on activities, real world contexts, meaningful exploration and reflection, and opportunities to record and present learning in a variety of ways
• Clear guided examples and differentiated practice (whole class and small group-support, at both standard and extension points)
• Post-assessments for every topic, allowing teachers to review learning and measure student progress.

Numicon

Mathematics involves thinking about abstract concepts, something that many students have difficulty with. Numicon’s multi-sensory approach uses concrete materials and focuses on action, imagery and conversation to support students to explore relationships between numbers, look for patterns and solve problems using real-life contexts.

Key features

• Teaching Resource Handbooks contain an implementation guide and step-by-step activities for the whole class, groups, pairs, and individuals
• Explorer Progress Book gives teachers the opportunity to assess and monitor individual student progress
• Copymasters support the activities in the teaching resource handbook and contain short, simple instructions to support parental engagement with the activities
• Apparatus packs encourage students to reason mathematically through the use of concrete objects and provide all the material you need for group or one-to-one learning