Maths

Maths is an important skill which is used in everyday life. Our vision is to develop children's conceptual understanding by making connections and seeing patterns which enable children to apply mathematical knowledge in different contexts through a Mastery approach. 

Intent

• Children to have a playful initial approach to number sense in order to spot patterns and make connections in Maths.
• Teachers expose children to mathematical connections to improve conceptual knowledge.
• Build an enjoyment of Maths by drawing on previous knowledge
• To develop children’s factual, procedural and metacognitive knowledge to create deep thinkers who acquire the skills that can be recalled quickly and transferred and applied in different contexts.

Implementation

• Leaders of learning reinforce an expectation that all children are capable of achieving high standards in Maths.
• Carefully planned opportunities are made to expose children to key mathematical connections across concepts.
• Teachers understand the importance of key mathematical vocabulary and teach and model this explicitly through metatalk and stem sentences.
• opportunities to focus in on prior knowledge and understanding.
• initial opportunities for purposeful play through the use of carefully selected manipulatives to expose structures, develop connections and notice things about the Maths.
• to get appropriate pictorial representations of each mathematical concept to make the abstract concept clearer.
• to experience the concrete, pictorial and abstract journey that form the building blocks of understanding to enable children to work successfully in the abstract form.
• to access carefully selected questions which include varied forms of fluency.
• once both procedural and conceptual fluency has been established, to move into the stages of justification, proving and explaining their thinking in a variety of ways.
• to solve problems that demonstrate their deeper understanding.

Impact

• We have high expectations of all children at Seacroft Grange in line with our ‘best for, best from’ ethos. Children will be challenged in their mathematical thinking while being supported by a coherent and consistent journey of teaching and learning. 
• Children will be able to show high quality reasoning skills. They will be more confident at being to articulate their thinking and their use of appropriate methods.
• Books will show that children have been through a mastery journey of learning and have been exposed to all the Golden Stages.
• Teaching will show high quality questioning and metacognition. This will give children opportunities to reason whilst also being modelled effective thinking from the teacher.
• Children will be able to recall key facts and apply these facts to given problems.

School's Maths lead is a Primary Mastery Specialist with West Yorkshire Maths Hub. 

Calculation procedures at Seacroft Grange Primary School