2. Currriculum praeceptor

"There is no royal road to geometry"

Euclid (to Ptolemy1),

The current funding of primary education allows little scope for using specialist teachers and most teachers have to teach all subjects. With the fluctuating fashions in teaching mathematics over the last few decades some who have not studied mathematics since they were themselves at school may find they were taught to march to the beat of a different drum (or just badly taught). The scope of the mathematics curriculum, taken at face value, is much wider than in the past and short notes on some of the newer topics are included. It is important that simplification for class presentation does not reduce the mathematical content to vanishing point and that pupils do not acquire misconceptions and errors in the process which compromise their future development.

1. Language and reasoning		5. Sorting
2. Number Sequences		6. Probability examples
3. Positional value		7. Trial and error
4. Multiplication and division