Mathematics

At Streethay Primary School, we nurture and inspire mathematically thinking children, preparing them to thrive in a mathematical world with confidence, resilience and independence. Our ambitious, progressive and interconnected curriculum strives for all learners to succeed and make progress from their starting points. I intend for children to achieve maths mastery by having:

An understanding of important concepts

Through excellent modelling and a well-thought-out teaching journey, teachers support children in gaining the knowledge required to understand key, important concepts that underpin maths learning. With smaller steps identified for SEND learners.

We intend to create a vocabulary rich environment, where talk for maths is a key learning tool for all children. Pre-teaching key vocabulary is a driver for pupil understanding and develops the confidence pf pupils to explain mathematically.

The ability to make connections

All children will have opportunities to identify patterns or connections in their maths; they can use this to predict and reason, and to also develop their own patterns or links within and across maths topics, or other subject areas.

The ability to use, apply and problem solve

We intend that all children are given opportunities to use and apply knowledge and skills gained, regardless of ability. All pupils should solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and nonroutine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.

A fluent recall of number facts

We intend for all pupils to become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including 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.

The ability to reason and generalise.

We intend for all pupils to reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.

Most importantly to us at Streethay, we intend for all children to have a love and passion for the subject of mathematics.