ORIGO Stepping Stones gives mathematics teachers the best of both worlds by delivering lessons and teacher guides on a digital platform blended with the more traditional printed student journals.
This uniquely interactive program allows students to participate in exciting learning activites whilst still allowing the teacher to maintain control of learning outcomes. It is the first program in Australia to give teachers activities to differentiate instruction within each lesson and across school years.
Written by a team of Australia's leading mathematics educators, this program integrates key research findings in a practical sequence of modules and lessons providing schools with a step-by-step approach to the new curriculum. Click links on the right to explore the program.
This new mathematics program
- addresses the 3 content strands and 4 proficiency strands as described in the draft Australian Curriculum (ACARA, April 2009)
- provides a developmentally-appropriate teaching sequence for Year K, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6.
- increases expectations for student achievement from the first year of school (download expectations for Year K, Year 1 and Year 2)
- provides differentiated instruction for each lesson and across school years.
In each year level K–6, there are 16 modules.
Each module includes
- 8 × 3-step lesson plans (4 lessons in Year K)
- open tasks for small-group work (learning centres in Year K)
- multiple options for assessing and recording
- problem-solving activities
- differentiated instruction for each lesson
- differentiated instruction across years
- printable resources
- references to optional resources
More Information
To see how ORIGO Stepping Stones correlates to the NSW K–6 Mathematics Curriculum, click here.
Year K Note
States and territories refer to the year prior to Year 1 with different terms: K (Kindergarten), P (Preparatory), R (Reception) and T (Transition). For the draft Australian Curriculum, ACARA used "Kindergarten". This is reflected in our core program. ACARA have since decided to change this terminology to "Foundation Year". ORIGO will implement this change to online and print content as is appropriate to minimise any confusion to schools already using the program.
If you have questions on this above note or any other, please email
info@origo.com.au. Thank you.
