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ALIM Maths Acceleration Agenda

Use the learner profile and lesson scenario below to plan a short, focused maths acceleration cycle. ALIM here means Assess readiness, Limit the focus to essential learning, Increase challenge and pace, and Monitor progress. Write practical decisions that could be used in a real lesson.

A learner profile

A small group is learning ratios. In a quick check, most learners can make equal groups and multiply whole numbers, but several confuse a ratio of 2:3 with a difference of 1. The next class is 30 minutes long. The goal is for learners to represent and solve simple equivalent-ratio problems, such as scaling a recipe.

1.Assess readiness: Which prerequisite skill should you check first, and what one quick prompt would reveal whether learners have it?

2.Readiness decision: A learner answers that a 2:3 ratio means there is 1 more of the second quantity. What does this show, and what would be a useful next teaching move?

3.Limit the focus: Which is the best essential learning goal for this 30-minute lesson?

Learners will master every type of ratio and proportion.
Learners will represent a simple ratio and use multiplication to make an equivalent ratio.
Learners will memorise a list of ratio vocabulary without solving problems.
Learners will study ratios, fractions, percentages, and algebra in one lesson.

4.Plan the worked example: A smoothie uses 2 bananas for every 3 cups of yoghurt. How many bananas are needed for 9 cups of yoghurt? Show the scaling factor and calculation.

5.Increase challenge and pace: Which follow-up best extends learning after a learner correctly solves the smoothie problem?

Give the learner many identical questions with no change in difficulty.
Ask the learner to explain why both parts of a ratio must be scaled by the same factor, then solve a new context.
Ask the learner to copy the worked example several times.
Move the learner to an unrelated topic.

6.Match each ALIM move to the lesson action.

Assess readiness
Limit the focus
Increase challenge and pace
Monitor progress

Teach equivalent ratios rather than several ratio topics at once.
Use an exit question and decide the next teaching step from responses.
Use a one-question entry check on equal groups and multiplication.
Ask learners to justify and apply the relationship in a new context.

7.Monitor progress: Write one exit question that checks whether learners understand equivalent ratios, not just the answer to the worked example.

8.Interpret the exit check: 6 learners answer correctly and explain their scaling; 3 give a correct answer but cannot explain; 2 treat the ratio as an addition pattern. What should happen next?

9.Plan a short acceleration cycle: State one piece of readiness evidence to collect before the lesson, one progress check during or after it, and how that evidence will change the next lesson.