Maths

Our subject lead for Maths is Miss Hagley.

Intent

Children at Marden Vale CE Academy will:

• Become fluent in arithmetic and number knowledge.
• Recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately
• Experience varied and fluent practice and consolidation
• Develop reasoning and problem solving skills
• Understand mathematical language and use this to reason
• Apply their mathematical knowledge and understanding to solve routine and non-routine problems

We want them to: ‘Love Maths, Talk Maths, Use Maths’

Implementation

From FS2 to Year 6, children follow a mastery approach using the Power Maths (White Rose Maths) scheme as the main driver supplemented with 2.0 & 3.0 White Rose Maths. The Mastery Approach incorporates the ‘5 Big Ideas’

Coherence – Small steps are identified and objectives are planned in a clear sequence to ensure that children gain deep and sustainable learning as the key concepts are taught.

Representation and structure – It is important to use a range of rich, high quality resources, which provide children with the variation they need to flourish. Manipulatives need to support the ‘showing of maths’ concept and key representations used effectively.

Variation – Procedural and conceptual variation is key to ensure that essential and non-essential features of the concept are shown to children as well as progressive connections.

Fluency – Children can flexibly move between contexts and representations as well as recall rapidly key facts. It aims for efficiency, accuracy and flexibility.

Mathematical thinking – This enables children to gain deep and sustainable learning through reasoning, discussion and looking for patterns.

Fluency, reasoning and problem solving underpin the Maths curriculum at Marden Vale CE Academy and through careful planning and delivery, children work hard to develop their understanding through a range of concrete, pictorial and abstract concepts so that variation is understood.

Where appropriate, we also encourage children to use the skills they learn in Maths lessons across the rest of the curriculum. Wherever possible, we encourage the children to use and apply their learning in everyday situations.

All children work through the programme of study at broadly the same pace, however, pre-teaching, careful support and scaffolding allow those working towards age related expectations more time and discussion of concepts in order to continue moving in line with their peers. For those children who show a greater understanding, our curriculum challenges them to delve deeper into an objective through rich and sophisticated language, problems and opportunities to explain and expand on their reasoning.

See Maths Policy and Progression document for more detail

Impact

At Marden Vale CE Academy you will see:

• Engaged, motivated children who are both supported and challenged
• Children who demonstrate quick recall of facts and procedures, showing arithmetic fluency
• Children with the flexibility and fluidity to move between different contexts and representations of maths
• Children who have the skills to solve problems by applying mathematics to different situations with increasing efficiency
• Children who can explain mathematical thinking
• Children who make progress through mathematical concepts

Pupils who: ‘Love Maths, Talk Maths, Use Maths’

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