Statement of Intent

Mathematics is a creative and highly interconnected discipline that has been developed over centuries, providing the solution to some of history’s most intriguing problems. It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment.

Our aim is to provide a high-quality mathematics education which provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject. The school curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils become fluent in the fundamentals. 

This could be through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. Pupils should be able to reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.

They should be able to solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.

Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which pupils need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas. Our curriculum is, by necessity, organised into apparently distinct domains, but pupils should make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving problems.

They should also apply their mathematical knowledge to science and other subjects. The expectation is that the majority of pupils will move through the curriculum at broadly the same pace. However, decisions about when to progress should always be based on the security of pupils’ understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly should be challenged to deepen their understanding before any acceleration through new content.

Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material should consolidate their understanding, including through interventions (where necessary) and additional practice, before moving on. 

 

Useful Information (please click on links below)

Maths Curriculum Overview

 

Maths at home (clink on links to access websites)

The children have access to online resources that help them to practise and reinforce the concepts that they have been taught in school. The children in KS2 have their own login details for many of the apps that we use in school and can use these to access them from home- please speak to your child’s class teacher if you would like another copy.

NumBots is all about every child developing a sound understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that they move from counting to calculating.

Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice aimed at children in Year 2 upwards.

MyMaths aims to develop pupils’ confidence and fluency in maths through online lessons, online tasks and games.