Lesson Plans
The detailed lessons are designed within the ELPSA pedagogical framework. When Teachers log in to MathsBURST, they’ll see their next lesson plan and all of the lessons’ activities.
Each lesson and activity can be marked as completed, to help teachers and schools keep track of the MathsBURST rollout.
All relevant Professional Learning is presented in line with the teaching content, to make sure teachers are well supported and able to draw on the program’s ELSPA and VPC frameworks.
Resources for the lessons can be downloaded in a single click, in printable formats.
The lesson plans themselves can be downloaded for teachers to review offline. Curriculm is clearly outlined against the lesson content to help Teachers document outcomes.
Digital challenges
Students enjoy our challenges because they are engaging to play, while providing scaffolded mastery.
In terms 2 and 3, teachers have access to 10 graded challenge levels that pair with the term’s program. Teachers have flexibility on when they use the challenges in the classroom. Each challenge level can be played in 10 mins, on a touchscreen or with a keyboard and mouse.
Teachers can easily review progress across the class, and also review indvidual student progress. Teachers can also review their student’s responses for any given Challenge item.
Students love our challenges because they’re simple to play, and quickly become rewarding to master. All of our challenges feature clear animated responses for when students get a incorrect answer. Students who struggle at a Challenge level are encouraged during the challenge to seek teacher assitance.
The digital challenges provide opportunities for scaffolded mastery of spatial skills.
The respective spatial skills are mapped to student learning programs—with individual student performed mapped on assessment dashboards in real time.
Lessons and our ELPSA cycle
All learning materials are designed and written within a pedagogical cycle that mirrors concept development. The five-stage model [E-L-P-S-A] replicates constructivist views of learning—but in a focused manner.
At each stage of the model, explicit intentional teaching processes are enacted to ensure learning is purposeful and deliberate in nature.
Further, lessons are designed to introduce explicitly pictorial and symbolic representations on concepts to help build student’s problem-solving flexibility and fluency.
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MathsBURST acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where we are situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We also recognise the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.