Series Title: Strategic Maths: Number
ISBNs and Titles in the Series: 7 books (4 new releases for term 3)
Beginning Level: 978 1 92136 728 1
Lower Primary Book 1: 978 1 92136 729 8
Lower Primary Book 2: 978 1 92136 730 4
Middle Primary Book 1: 978 1 92136 731 1
Middle Primary Book 2: 978 1 92136 732 8
Upper Primary Book 1: 978 1 92136 733 5
Upper Primary Book 2: 978 1 92136 734 2
Author: Ann & Johnny Baker RRP: $69.95 ea
Pages: Beginning Level 122 pp, Lower Primary Book 1 112 pp, Lower Primary Book 2 140 pp, Middle Primary Book 1 164 pp, Middle Primary Book 2 112 pp, Upper Primary Book 1 & 2 112 pp.
Specification: 280mm x 210mm Portrait, b & w, concealed spiral bound with 2 CD-ROMs
Category: Primary Teacher Resource
Target Market: Primary School Teachers
Description: The Strategic Maths series provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies. The books have been designed to allow teachers to tailor their teaching to the range of learners in the class. Students are assessed during and after each unit to ensure they have developed a deep understanding of the big ideas in number.
Each 16 page unit of Strategic Maths focuses on a key mathematical understanding of Number and contains:
• A Unit Planning outline, listing all of the support resources on the CD-ROM.
• A Top 5 that lists and assesses the targeted outcomes of the unit.
• 5 photocopiable Activity sheets with an accompanying page of teaching notes that outlines the activity’s rationale and provides preliminary teaching ideas.
• A photocopiable assessment Activity sheet with a ‘Tick and Flick Rubric’ to assist teachers to diagnose their students’ level of understanding.
• A ‘Letter to the family’ that can be sent home with the student outlining the concept being taught in class and suggesting ways these can be supported in the home environment.
• Resource cards for photocopying and laminating.
All of the photocopiable material in the Strategic Maths books is also included in PDF format on the CD-ROM.

Interactive Whiteboard Activities
The Teacher Disk that accompanies each of the books contains slideshows that demonstrate the key concepts being developed in each unit. Many of the slideshows are interactive and the answers are self-regenerating. This means that teachers can involve their students actively — instead of passively watching. The Student Disk with each book has copies of each of the interactive activities. These can be copied on to a student's memory stick to take home or loaded onto a classroom computer.

Natural Maths Strategies
There are many recommended supplementary activities suggested in the Strategic Maths books that are taken from
the Natural Maths Strategies series. It is not necessary for teachers to have these books, as all of this additional
material is provided as photocopiable PDFs on the Teacher disk.