Reconnaissance - student inquiry foci (Part 2)

The Challenge: How do we accelerate achievement in maths when teachers are tasked with teaching a classroom of students with a range of maths abilities and with various gaps in maths knowledge?

Possible inquiry focus in terms of student learning: Working collaboratively to accelerate achievement in maths for all Year 3 to 4 children.

Why I have selected this challenge of student learning and possible inquiry focus: 

School data:

As you can see from this graph, there is a common trend in maths at our school where across a year, our children are achieving appropriately in maths, however they are doing it at a level much lower than the NZ norm. Therefore, the focus of my inquiry needs to be on accelerating the achievement. 

Cluster data:

You can see from this graph that at our school, the challenge is more pronounced than that of the Manaiakalani cluster.

Manaiakalani Programme data: 

Manaiakalani Programme data has a similar trend however across the Manaiakalani cluster as well as the whole of the Manaiakalani Programme, achievement in maths is closer to the NZ norm. This emphasises that accelerating maths achievement is definitely a need at our school. We need to be getting our children's maths closer to the norm. So how are we going to achieve this?