Nelson Maths features:

• complete curriculum coverage
• open-ended and stimulating tasks, allowing students to work at their appropriate developmental level
• three lessons per unit description to introduce, build and consolidate student skills and knowledge
• comprehensive support for the algorithms and coding strands (Victorian Curriculum)
• integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (Australian Curriculum and Australian Curriculum for NSW)
• ongoing assessment tools and opportunities for a variety of assessment types.

Student Books

Each student book features:

• three pages of activities for each unit (one Student Book page per Lesson Plan)
• one Student Assessment page per unit
• the linking curriculum content strand, content descriptions and code for that unit
• a glossary of mathematical terms.

Teacher's Resource Book

The Teacher’s Resource Book is a valuable teaching tool for every teacher. The books feature:

• Assessment Task Cards (with linking Targeted Assessment Task Cards)
• Tests A and B
• Web links to all NTOs and printable PDFs of BLMs, Tests, Answers (Year 3 and up) and Assessment Task Cards
• The link to the curriculum content strand, content descriptions and code for that unit
• Maths language: the vocabulary the teacher models and uses in their teaching, and the language students are encouraged to use.

Nelson Teaching Objects (NTOs)

Nelson Teaching Objects (NTOs) add another dimension to implementing a dynamic maths lesson and reinforce student understanding of key mathematical concepts.

The NTOs:

• illustrate mathematical concepts explicitly
• engage students actively in their own learning
• scaffold student learning
• require students to use their mathematical understandings in an engaging and meaningful context.

Building Mental Strategies Big Books and Skill Books

The Nelson Maths Building Mental Strategies Big Books support children in their first, second and third years of school in the development of sound mental strategies that will work for them in a variety of contexts. The Big Books can be used in conjunction with the Nelson Maths: Australian Curriculum F–3 student books.

The Nelson Maths Building Mental Strategies Skill Books are four write-in workbooks which support the learning and development of mental strategies in the areas of counting, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

How does Nelson Maths align to the new Australian Curriculum v9.0?

We've developed three correlation charts showing how Nelson Maths Victoria, Nelson Maths NSW and Nelson Maths AC align to the new Australian Curriculum v9.0.