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.
Maths Curriculum Statement
Maths Curriculum Overview
Curriculum Progression in Mathematics
Calculation Policies
Fluent In Five and Mastering Number
At Streethay, we recognise the importance of research by Rosenshine and his Principles of Instruction, as well as the EEF's Improving Maths research. Both studies highlight the importance of children regularly given time to revisit past learning, as well as continual practise of basic skills. This is why all children from KS1 complete daily Fluent In Five activities, which gives them opportunity to recall and practise key arithmetic knowledge. Children in EYFS and KS1, also have the opportunity to develop fluency with basic number facts, within daily Mastering Number. These are all in addition to their daily mathematics lessons.
Fluent In 5 Progression
Mastering Number Fluency
RUCSAC Problem Solving in Maths
At Streethay, we recognise that problem solving is an integral part of our daily lives. Most days we are presented with problems, in varying contexts, that we must find a solution to in order to be successful.
To prepare our children for real life, problem solving is an important part of our curriculum, particularly within Maths. At the start of each lesson, our pupils are provided with a problem, in a real-life content, to hook them into their learning. In their independent learning, pupils are given frequent opportunities to solve a range of problems using the CPA (Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract) approach to help them.
Whilst we are providing our children with frequent opportunities to problem solve, we have found that some children in the past have struggled to formulate an efficient strategy to help them be successful.
Therefore, to help our children, we have introduced a new approach to problem solving throughout the school; this forms part of our school development plan this year in Maths. It is called the RUCSAC method. Whenever they are faced with a problem, we encourage our children to use the strategy as follows:
RUCSAC
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