Race to the Tree
+1 -1 +2 -2
Year 1 and strong first-year of school cohorts
Place Value to the tens of thousands
Years 2-4 with extending prompts
Race to the
Tree
+10 -10
Year 1/2 with extending prompts
Capture the candy canes
Years 4-6 with extending prompts
Christmas Tokens Race
Mental addition
Years 1-3 with extending prompts
Race with operations
Years 4-6 with extending prompts
Created by students at TEPS - one of Top Ten's original member schools that achieved our founding growth results from 2016-2018
First year
of school
Number line slider template
Years 1-3 with extending prompts
Years 4-6
decimals focus
Printable tokens
Next year, you could wish upon a star for these results...or support your teachers with Top Ten's unit plans:
Chirnside Park PS - 2024 Year 3 NAPLAN
following consistent use of the Top Ten Early Years Package
for three years leading up to these results (the COVID Preps!)
Department of Education requested the comparison to region result be removed, because it would potentially lead to excess enrolments at this school, compared to non-Top Ten schools in the same region.
Introductory video
Download free samples from our Early Years Package
Victorian Curriculum Version 2.0 samples
WA Curriculum
samples
Australian Curriculum Version 9 samples
NSW Syllabus for K-2
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Direct curriculum links at the start of every unit plan to each state's content and level/stage.
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Learning intentions and maths vocabulary at the start of every lesson plan.
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Engaging tuning-in options/hooks/stories to win students' hearts before their minds.
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Explicit modelling using materials with photographs of numeracy coaches in classrooms and detailed student work samples.
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Ongoing support and extension for classes with wide ranges through pre-planned enabling and extending prompts for every lesson.
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Warm-ups, exit tickets and formative assessments to target ongoing needs and critical gaps throughout the year.
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Proven scope and sequence that has achieved Australia's leading NAPLAN results in numeracy with 98% of Year 3 students strong or exceeding compared to 67% in the same region. Whole-school implementation support documents from high performing schools, including developmental staircases for every major number concept, lesson structure guides, practical classroom tips and ongoing planning support for teachers.
Lessons in action
Our Planning Support Packages
NUMERACY LIBRARY
WITH LESSONS
Selectively-chosen numeracy picture book titles with over 150 linked lessons that are in addition to those in the early years and years 3-6 planning packs.
All titles are organised by year level and arrive packed into concepts (place value; addition; subtraction; multiplication; division; fractions; measurement and geometry; statistics and probability).
COMPREHENSIVE EARLY YEARS PLANNING PACKAGE
Developmentally-sequenced, user-friendly
unit plans with detailed hands-on lessons for every critical skill throughout the early years. Diagnostic and formative assessments highlight points-of-need.
Lessons include enabling and extending prompts, engaging hooks, warm-ups, photographs of numeracy coaches modelling and student work samples.
CLASSROOM
MATHS TOOLBOXES