Collins Busy Ant Maths
Early – Upper Years • Years F/K-6 [Y1-7]
Busy Ant Maths the exciting, whole-school primary maths program that ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency.
Introducing Busy Ant Maths 2nd Edition, with new student
Textbooks, updated components including Teacher Guides, and a
whole new set of resources for Foundation Stage.
Written by an expert author team with over 50 years’ combined classroom experience, Busy Ant Maths is a flexible, whole-school mathematics program that assists teachers in teaching for mastery and ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start.
Busy Ant Maths
- Provide clear progression from Years 1-6 [Y2-7]
- Summarise the most important knowledge and understanding
- Make connections between core concepts across year groups
- Address the areas in the curriculum identified as a priority including number and place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division (including number facts), fractions and geometry
Teacher’s Guides
- Updated for the second edition with guidance and support for planning and teaching
- Unit overviews reference ready-to-progress criteria for that unit
- Additional or alternative representations suggested in lesson plans, including reference to digital tools
- Links given to relevant pages of the new Student Textbooks
- Additional links to other Busy Ant Maths 2nd Edition components
- Additional resource sheets
Student Textbooks
The textbook content is designed to be used during the ‘Teach’ phase of a typical Busy Ant Maths lesson, or to help students during the ‘Individualised Learning’ phase of a lesson to answer the questions on the accompanying Activity Book page.
- Build key vocabulary to encourage development of precise and accurate language
- Highlight prerequisite learning and future application of learning
- Give more mathematical representations that follow the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract approach
- Focus on key number knowledge and concepts. Used in conjunction with the Teacher’s Guides and Activity Books, these books are the best way to ensure that students achieve all the learning objectives of the curriculum.
