What this is
A personal tracking tool for the seven Phase 2 numeracy strategies. You keep this — it travels with you through the unit and shows your growth over time.
Pāngarau / Mathematics · Years 3–6 · Self-assessment
Strategy Passport — Phase 2 Numeracy
Track your progress through seven Phase 2 numeracy strategies. Rate your confidence, write your own examples, and set goals. When you are ready, show your teacher to earn a verification stamp for each strategy.
Free passport tool, premium adaptation path
This passport provides a full seven-strategy tracking tool with goal-setting and teacher verification. Te Wānanga can rebuild it for a different phase, subject area, or school context.
- Generate a Phase 3 passport when students are ready to move on.
- Adapt for other curriculum areas using the same self-rating structure.
- Save adapted copies in My Kete for class sets.
Kaiako planning snapshot
- Introduce: 10 minutes at the start of Phase 2 — explain the rating scale and goal section.
- Ongoing: Students update ratings after each strategy session.
- Check-in: Brief one-to-one every 2–3 weeks — student explains an example, teacher signs off.
- Teaching move: "Show me an example you wrote yourself" before signing — avoids copying without understanding.
- Peer role: Encourage tuakana–teina pairs to check each other's examples before the teacher signs.
Resources already provided
- Printed passport (one per student — keep for the whole unit)
- Pencils for rating and write-on spaces
- All seven strategy cards with worked examples
- Self-rating scale (1 = trying, 2 = getting there, 3 = can teach it)
- Write-on space for student's own example in each strategy
- Goal-setting section (three prompts)
- Teacher verification strip for all seven strategies
- Learning intentions and success criteria
Print one per student at the start of Phase 2. Students keep their passport and bring it to each maths session — no reprinting needed.
Pēhea taku whakamahi i tēnei Uruwhenua? / How to use this Passport
This passport belongs to you. Your job is to track your own learning honestly. After practising each strategy, rate your confidence using the scale below. Write your own example to prove you understand — don't just copy the example provided. When you feel confident (rating 3), ask a peer to check your example, then show your kaiako.
Peer check: Before you ask your kaiako to verify, swap with a partner. Can they follow your example? Does it show the strategy clearly? This is whanaungatanga in action — looking after each other's learning.
Ngā Whāinga Akoranga / Learning Intentions
- We are learning to track our own progress through Phase 2 numeracy strategies.
- We are learning to set goals for strategies we want to develop.
- We are learning to reflect on which strategies we find most efficient.
Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria
- I can self-assess my confidence with each strategy honestly.
- I can write my own example to show understanding.
- I can explain the next strategy I want to learn.
My Strategy Passport — Phase 2
Rate each strategy after you have practised it. Write your own example — not a copy of the one provided.
Strategy 1: Place Value Partitioning
Example: 347 = 300 + 40 + 7
(3 hundreds, 4 tens, 7 ones)
Te reo: toru rau, whā tekau, whitu
(3 hundreds, 4 tens, 7 ones)
Te reo: toru rau, whā tekau, whitu
Circle your rating:
My own example:
Strategy 2: Tidy Numbers (Add / Sub)
Example: 248 + 153
Round 248 → 250 (+2)
250 + 153 = 403; adjust: 403 − 2 = 401
Round 248 → 250 (+2)
250 + 153 = 403; adjust: 403 − 2 = 401
Circle your rating:
My own example:
Strategy 3: Add-On Subtraction
Example: 512 − 348
348 → 350 (+2) → 400 (+50) → 512 (+112)
Total jumps: 2 + 50 + 112 = 164
348 → 350 (+2) → 400 (+50) → 512 (+112)
Total jumps: 2 + 50 + 112 = 164
Circle your rating:
My own example:
Strategy 4: Equal Groups → Arrays
Example: 4 rows of 6 seats
Repeated addition: 6+6+6+6 = 24
Multiplication: 4 × 6 = 24
Repeated addition: 6+6+6+6 = 24
Multiplication: 4 × 6 = 24
Circle your rating:
My own example (draw array + equation):
Strategy 5: Fact Families (× / ÷)
Example: Numbers 6, 7, 42:
6×7=42 7×6=42
42÷6=7 42÷7=6
6×7=42 7×6=42
42÷6=7 42÷7=6
Circle your rating:
My own fact family (3 numbers, 4 equations):
Strategy 6: Doubling & Halving
Example: 4 × 36
Double 4 → 8; halve 36 → 18
8 × 18 → 16 × 9 = 144
Double 4 → 8; halve 36 → 18
8 × 18 → 16 × 9 = 144
Circle your rating:
My own example:
Strategy 7: Area Model
Example: 34 × 6
Partition 34 into 30 + 4
30 × 6 = 180
4 × 6 = 24
Total: 180 + 24 = 204
Partition 34 into 30 + 4
30 × 6 = 180
4 × 6 = 24
Total: 180 + 24 = 204
30
4
6
180
24
Circle your rating:
Draw your own area model and write the equation:
Draw area model here with labels.
Ōku Whāinga / My Goals
Next strategy I want to master:
I will practise by (what I will do — be specific):
I'll show my teacher by (date):
The strategy I find most efficient for big addition problems is:
I chose it because:
Kaiako Verification Strip — Initials + Date for each strategy
Kaiako: sign off when the student demonstrates the strategy using their own example. This is a teaching conversation, not a test.
S1: Place Value
Initials
Date
S2: Tidy Numbers
Initials
Date
S3: Add-On Sub
Initials
Date
S4: Arrays
Initials
Date
S5: Fact Families
Initials
Date
S6: D & H
Initials
Date
S7: Area Model
Initials
Date
Curriculum integration / Te Mātaiaho alignment
This passport supports the Pāngarau / Mathematics learning area of Te Mātaiaho by embedding metacognitive reflection alongside strategy development. Self-assessment and goal-setting are identified in Te Mātaiaho as key capabilities across all learning areas. The conservation animal icons connect to the Science strand and reinforce the environmental contexts used throughout Phase 2 handouts.
Hononga Marautanga · Curriculum Alignment
Pāngarau / Mathematics
Years 3–6: Develop and use a range of additive and multiplicative strategies; reflect on and monitor own learning progress; select strategies with increasing efficiency; explain and justify mathematical reasoning to others.
Key Competencies — Thinking / Managing Self
The NZ Curriculum key competencies of Managing Self (goal-setting, self-monitoring) and Thinking (metacognitive reflection, strategy selection and justification) are explicitly practised through this passport format across all year levels.
Aronga Mātauranga Māori
This resource sits within a kaupapa that recognises mātauranga Māori as a living knowledge system with its own frameworks, values, and ways of understanding the world. The self-monitoring structure of this passport reflects the concept of kaitiakitanga — guardianship — applied inward: each student becomes a kaitiaki of their own learning. Just as a kaitiaki carefully watches over a taonga (treasure) and notices what is thriving and what needs attention, a learner who honestly self-assesses is protecting and nurturing their own mathematical understanding. The conservation animal icons — kiwi, tuatara, kākāpō, mohua — are not decoration. They are reminders that the mathematics in this unit serves a real purpose: helping people count, plan, and protect the taiao (natural world). Whanaungatanga shapes the peer-checking practice: before seeking teacher verification, asking a partner to review your example is an act of care — aroha — for your own learning and for theirs. The tuakana–teina relationship (older/more experienced supporting younger/newer) is embedded in the peer check step, and all students will play both roles at different points in their learning journey. Students are invited to see their growing mathematical competence as a form of taonga to be nurtured, shared, and offered back to the community.
Tuhia ōu whakaaro · Write Your Thoughts
Looking back at your ratings: which strategy surprised you the most — harder or easier than you expected? What does that tell you about your learning?
Ngā Rauemi Tautoko · Support Materials
This passport is designed to be used alongside the broader Phase 2 resources available at Te Kete Ako handouts library. The Core Strategies and Challenge Extension handouts provide practice material for each strategy in this passport. All resources are provided — no additional preparation is required to use this passport in your classroom.