Strategies to Achieve Mathematics Success provides students with explicit instruction of 16 maths topics, which cover both concepts and skills, that have been identified as the most important instructional goals for each year level.
Each STAMS® Plus student book contains 16 highly scaffolded, five-part lessons. Each of these lessons helps students to become independent learners as they are moved through each of the five parts: modelled instruction, guided instruction, modelled practice, guided practice and independent practice. In this way, students are required to use increasing degrees of higher-level thinking to analyse and explain their answers as they move through practice problems that increase in difficulty, ultimately building student proficiency and confidence.
STAMS® Plus level D is targeted at students in years 4 and 5, and assesses the following strategies:
Multiplication properties
Relate division to multiplication
Simplify fractions
Angles
Multiply mentally
Divide without regrouping
Decimal place value
Understand area
Multiply by 1-digit numbers
Divide with regrouping
Compare and order decimals
Area of rectangles
Multiply by 2-digit numbers
Equivalent fractions
Relate decimals to fractions
Dot plots
Each lesson in the 2013 Australian edition of CAMS® Plus, STAMS® Plus and Solve® has been aligned with corresponding Australian Curriculum content descriptions.