Course and unit planning

Comprehensive, customisable units of work

Clarity, structure and flexibility — built in.

Planning a maths course shouldn’t mean starting from scratch. Instructive provides complete, curriculum-aligned courses for every year level, so your faculty can hit the ground running – while still giving teachers the freedom to shape each term to suit their students, timetable and context.

Whether you’re designing a whole-school scope and sequence or preparing a single class for tomorrow’s lesson, everything connects: clear structure, editable documents, and live classroom data all in one place.

Course setup made easy

At the heart of Instructive’s explicit teaching are the Lesson Ideas: concise, teacher-ready documents that give you everything you need to start a class with clarity.

Each year level in Instructive comes with a set of ready-made, curriculum-aligned courses — already structured into a clear Scope and Sequence for the year. Once set up, every teacher can easily follow the plan: it becomes automatically built-in for every faculty member.

“(Instructive) has been good to scope and sequence and give teachers a little bit more guidance.”
Amelia Kellow, Mathematics Teacher

Courses are designed around your state or territory’s curriculum, and you can choose the stream that fits best: from core or extension pathways to specialist courses that prepare students for specific senior-maths options in Years 11 and 12.

Every course is ready to teach as it stands, yet remains easy to tailor. For example:

Adjust the order or timing of units to match your school calendar.
Utilise multi-year courses – helpful for Year 5/6 composite classes, or for Stage 4 in NSW (for example).
Input interruptions like camps and exam periods..
Customise the accompanying .docx unit documents to sit neatly inside your school’s template (for sample documentation, see more on Curriculum alignment)

It’s the balance every Head of Department wants: a robust, consistent program for the faculty, with room for individual teachers to make tweaks for their own classes. Clear structure for everyone. Flexibility when you need it.

Plan each unit your way

Here’s what each teacher sees when planning a unit. Each unit in Instructive is more than a list of lessons — it’s a live plan built from real data.

When planning, you’ll see the spread of attainment across your class: which concepts are secure, which are shaky, and where learning gaps sit. Click on any student to explore their individual grid and see exactly what they know and what’s next.

That insight guides how you plan the balance between two important elements:

Explicit Exposure

Short, teacher-led sessions that give all students a clear view of age-level ideas (see more on Explicit teaching resources)

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Differentiated Mastery

Personalised learning that helps each student grow along the continuum from where they are now (see more on Tailored, scaffolded exercises)

“Students who have missed a year or two of school are in charge of their learning and can progress. The explicit exposure is enough to support students with their modules; it is great that everything is linked together.”
Steve Laing, Head of Mathematics

Within the Unit Plan, you can reorder or skip exercises, adjust expectations for the class, or exempt individual students from specific tasks. Everything stays organised and connected, so you can adapt confidently without breaking the structure of the course.

Designed to save time and stay flexible

Every course and unit starts with a clear structure, so you spend less time building resources, and more time teaching. And because everything can be edited, reordered or reshaped, each teacher can make the plan their own without losing the shared consistency that keeps a faculty aligned.

It’s planning that feels professional: organised, adaptable and built for real classrooms.

Once the course and units are set, lesson planning becomes simple: everything connects seamlessly in your teaching timetable (see more on Lesson planning)