Curriculum for Excellence

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Exemplification of Curriculum for Excellence

The case studies in this section provide staff with exemplars of how some schools in Scotland have started to implement the numeracy experiences and outcomes under Curriculum for Excellence.

Within each of these studies you can find innovative teaching methods, video clips of good practice and numerous support materials for your own use.

These are by no means prescriptive teaching models for the curriculum but are provided to offer you inspiring illustrations of innovative practices that are already being used in Scottish schools today.


A girl counting money

Co-operative learning activities: an active approach to teaching numeracy

Includes five different co-operative learning activities with video clips. All the activities promote an active approach to teaching numeracy along the 'Money' line of progression. 

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Using numbers to count - pathways to numeracy

Baker Street Nursery and Allan’s Primary, Stirling, are using practical learning opportunities to lay the foundations of number competence and the development of mental capability.

 

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'In the Doghouse', a numeracy across learning project

The Mathematics and Craft, Design and Technology departments at Deans Community High School planned collaboratively to develop numeracy across learning.

A slave plantation painting

Improving engagement by developing literacy and numeracy in social studies

This project at Bannockburn High School emerged as a result of collaboration between colleagues in the social studies and additional support needs departments who were looking at ways of developing learning and teaching which would actively engage young people and support specific pupils in S2 more effectively.

Development and progression in mathematics

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View these documents that outline how key mathematical skills and concepts can be securely built and extended within and across the levels.