Maths for Schools

Alta Maths for Schools is a complete, web-based, formative assessment system. It is designed for primary and post primary schools, with content specifically designed for the Northern Ireland, Scotland and England curricula. It supports students in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 (aged 5 to 14).

"We have been using the system with my P6/7 and I am thrilled with what I have seen so far. Thanks for this."

(Primary 6/7 teacher)

Alta Maths for Schools is highly flexible and provides:

Practice Mode
for practising questions on selected criteria
Confirm Level Mode
for confirmation of teacher judgement that a student has mastered a level
Advanced Mode
creates a more detailed diagnostic profile - suitable for all students but especially for low and high achievers
Model Answer Mode
fully illustrated model answer to any given question
all modes are adaptive with the difficulty of next questions depending on previous answers

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For the mainstream education market the feedback and benefits reported by independent third-party evaluation include:

for Pupils

Increased motivation and enjoyment
Opportunity to develop ICT skills
Simple and intuitive to use
Great variety of questions and response types
Challenging and stimulating
Immediate assessment and feedback, with model answers

for Teachers

Better reliability and strong feedback
More focused and personalised teaching
Massive reduction in administrative tasks
Complements and supports teaching
Good basis for parent-teacher discussions
Accurate and reliable assessment

for All

Adaptive assessment offers detailed diagnostic feedback, motivates students to try to improve their score and informs teachers on students' strengths and weaknesses
Formative assessment enables teachers to feed information back to students in ways that enable the student to improve their own performance
Frequent (short) assessments help all students to enhance their learning, and help teachers adjust their teaching and learning practice to provide the most benefit to all students
Formative assessment using Alta Maths for Schools enables self-assessment by students

Check out the Alta Maths for Schools demo !

Maths For Schools has been procured by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland (DENI) and is available free of charge to all schools in NI.

Find out how your school can take part

Keys For Maths offer

Find out how your school could benefit from your purchase of Keys For Maths.

For every purchase of Keys For Maths, the Alta product for home users, the school is entitled to 2 pupil licences for the schools product Alta Maths for Schools.

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