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Little Big Maths: The Tracking BookThe Early Years practitioner’s record for tracking

progress in Little Big Maths

by Ben Harding


Little Big Maths: The Tracking BookThe Early Years practitioner’s record for tracking progress in Little Big Maths

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5Little Big Maths: The Tracking Book

How to use this book

Alongside the LBM book: This book should be used in conjunction with the main Little Big Maths book. The main book has key teaching points for each Progress Drive, plus essential information on the ‘how’ to teach Little Big Maths (The Little BIG Maths Way).

For Tracking a Group: In this book each Progress Drive provides the adult with space to efficiently track a group of children, making notes and recording evidence as we go. Postits, photographs or succinct jottings can allow the adult to assess and plan ‘next steps’ as the group make progress.

For Tracking Individuals: Although this is a group tracking book it also means there is individual tracking taking place. Knowing specifically which step each individual is up to on each Progress Drive allows for detailed personalised learning to be delivered. Sharing the next steps with the children makes them conscious and active learners. In this way assessment for learning becomes embedded into daily practice.

For 6 weekly planning: The ‘6 weekly’ planer allows adults to declare which steps they will aim to cover over the next 6 weeks for that group of children. There are 6 of these ‘6 week planners’. Thus, this tracking book will record and track the progress of a group of children for one year.

For Formal Assessments: Assessment frameworks vary from country to country and from time to time within a country. Which steps your country’s current assessment framework wishes you to formally assess and record, and when the child is ‘supposed’ to be at these steps according to that specific assessment framework, and where those steps

fit into the ‘Amounts CLIC’ structure, is all detailed in a simple document called, ‘CLIC on Your LBM Planning’.

It is therefore important for practitioners to ensure they have the LBM links to their current assessment framework for their own country. This is available free to download from www.AndrellEducation.com and can be printed and inserted into this book inside the back cover. By simply placing a coloured sticker against the steps in this book that are specifically mentioned in your country’s current assessment framework then it makes the process of assessing and recording the children’s numeracy development against that assessment framework a quick and easy one.

To Link into Big Maths: Many schools use Big Maths to track children’s progression for numeracy up Progress Drives throughout the Primary years. Where there is a BM icon next to a step this denotes a step from Big Maths and a child that has attained the LBM step with BM icon can therefore also have the equivalent step in their individual BM CLIC book recorded as attained. This provides vital seamless continuity for tracking and teaching so that the child experiences a numeracy learning journey across early years and primary years as if they were being taught by one teacher throughout.

For more information on Big Maths and Little Big Maths publications, software, staff training, courses, free resources and more see:

www.AndrellEducation.com

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Amounts C L I C

1 Amounts Exist

2Amounts

Compared - 1

3Amounts Are

Needed

4 Amounts Change

5Amounts

Compared - 2

6Amounts

Compared - 3

7Amounts

Compared by Counting

8 No Amount

Amounts Steps

1 Saying Numbers

2 Reading Numbers

3 Counting Skills

4 Actual Counting

5 Ordering Numbers

6 Counting Multiples

7 Squiggleworth

Counting

Counting (in detail)

1 1 to 10

2 11 to 20

3 1 to 100 Skills

41 to 100

I’m Ready

5Counting past 100

Skills

2. Reading Numbers Steps

1 1 to 10

2 11 to 20

3 1 to 100 Skills

41 to 100

I’m Ready

5Counting Past

100 Skills

6Counting Past 100

I’m Ready

7 Counting Backwards

1. Saying Numbers Steps

1 When to Count

2Last Number is the

Total

31 to 1

Correspondence

3. Counting Skills Steps

1 1 to 10

21 to 20 &

From a Pile

4. Actual Counting Steps

1 1 to 10

2Different Amounts &

1 to 20

32 Digit Numbers

2 Options

42 Digit Numbers

3 Options

5. Ordering Numbers Steps

1 Multiples of 10

2 Multiples of 5

3 Multiples of 2

6. Counting Multiples Steps

1 2 Digit Numbers

7. Squiggleworth Steps

1 My First Flashcards

2 My Body Learn Its

3My ‘Finger Double’

Learn Its

4 My Halving Learn Its

5 Double Facts

6My First

Number Sentences

7Number Buddy (Bonds to 10)

8 ‘Add on 2’ Learn Its

9 ‘Add on 3’ Learn Its

10 Single Digit Doubles

Learn Its Steps

1 Pim is Counting

2Pim Knows His

Learn Its

3Pim Swaps Amounts

4Doubling Amounts

5Halving

Amounts

6 Who Won?

7 Little Jigsaws

8 Fact Families

INN Steps

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Calculation Steps

Little Big Maths - 6 weekly planningTime Period:...............................................From:....................................................................... To:.................................................................................1


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Amou

nts

Exis

t

Amounts 1

Personalised Assessment/Planning Notes





Sticky Play & Use Play

Knows things exist – even out of sight

Looks for objects that have gone

Understands “Gone!”

Looks for a range of familiar objects

Looks for a familiar object

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1



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1 to

10

Saying Numbers

1







1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

1, 2, 3

Says some familiar numbers

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

BM



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I Know My Name

Total Recallwith 5 Flashcards



Total Recallwith 1 Flashcard

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

My

Firs

t Fl

ashc

ards

Learn Its 1



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Finds own context(with purpose)

Finds own context(without purpose)

Given context(and sees for self)

Given context(and prompted)

Given context(and told)

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

Pim

is C

ount

ing

INN 1



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I know when toadd some more

I can “add 1”

I know “1 more than”

I can “count on 1”

I can say the “next” number

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

Addi

tion

Ste

ps: 1

to

5

Addition 1 - 5

BM

BM









I know when totake some away

I can “take away 1”

I know“1 less than”

I can “count back 1”

I can say the number before

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

Subt

ract

ion

Step

s: 1

to

5

Subtraction 1 - 5

BM









I can draw out groups of dots

I can count out groups of blocks when I play

I can set out groups of blocks when I play

I can find the total amount of toys

I can set out groups of toys when I play

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

Mul

tipl

icat

ion

Step

s: 1

to

5

Multiplication 1 - 5

BM

BM

BM

BM

BM









I can share 6, 9, 12 or 15 objects

between 3 people

I can halve an even number of objects

I can share an even number of objects

between 2 people

I can count how many each

person has

I can give out objects fairly

Step 5

Step 4

Step 3

Step 2

Step 1

Divi

sion

Ste

ps: 1

to

5

Division 1 - 5

BM

BM

BM

BM

BM


Little Big Maths: The A-CLIC Book - £40

Little Big Maths is a teaching method that makes early progress in maths easy and fun for everyone. It follows the same basic principles that have made Big Maths such a huge success. Little Big Maths ensures there is a focus on progression within the context of a child’s play, self-discovery and personal learning journey.

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