Ruth Merttens on the New Primary Curriculum

Abacus: The three building blocks of Control, Understanding and Progression
Tackling the new primary maths curriculum, Ruth Merttens at BETT Show 2014
Ruth talks for less than 15mins about the new primary maths curriculum.
Tony & I have both worked with her in the past and value her opinion.
Worth looking at. Too much too soon. BUT try to keep the teacher in control and try to teach for understanding. How can you progress through this fatter and harder maths curriculum?
The Abacus scheme tries to provide a backbone of developing mathematics for you to select from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8kj4Zs3ZwU

RUM2 tries to offer choices that you can make. Ways of building sets of strategies that children can own select from and use.