Intent
At Shoreditch Park Primary School, we teach mathematics passionately, instilling the importance of creative thought and fluency using number in all lessons. We intend to provide children with a foundation for understanding number, reasoning, thinking logically and problem solving with resilience so that they are fully prepared for the future. It is essential that these keystones of Mathematics are embedded throughout all strands of the National Curriculum.
We ensure that we deliver a high-quality maths curriculum that is both challenging and enjoyable. Our aim is to encourage children make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. By adopting a Mastery approach, it is also intended that all children, regardless of their starting point, will maximise their academic achievement and leave Shoreditch Park Primary as independent learners with inquisitive minds, who have secure mathematical foundations and an interest in self-improvement, which they can apply in the real world.
Implementation
Our implementation is developed through secure understanding of the curriculum and subject area. Using White Rose Maths, our approach to maths teaching follows the highly successful teaching styles of Singapore and Shanghai maths – placing an emphasis on using concrete resources before pictoral or abstract representation of number.
The National Curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all children:
- Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that children have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately
- Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
- Can 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.
By using a variety of planning resources, we believe that we provide lessons are engaging and follow a cycle of planning, to ensure that we can evidence progress over short and long periods of time. Maths lessons are designed with a concrete, pictorial and abstract (CPA) approach, providing our pupils with the scaffolding required to access the learning at all levels. We place a large emphasis on pupil engagement and design lessons which involve all pupils using questioning and modelling at the centre of every lesson. To implement our intent, we ensure that our children are invested in their learning and are making a positive contribution to their lessons.
Impact
A mathematical concept or skill has been mastered when a child can show it in multiple ways, using the mathematical language to explain their ideas, and can independently apply the concept to new problems in unfamiliar situations. Children can demonstrate quick recall of facts and procedures - this includes the recollection of the times tables. Children will have the ability to recognise relationships and make connections in mathematics and showing a high level of pride in the presentation and understanding of their work.
Our teaching of, and curriculum for, mathematics will lead to outstanding progress over time across all key stages relative to each individual child’s starting point. It is designed to prepare children to show they have mastered a mathematical concept or skill when they are able to show it in multiple ways, using mathematical language to explain their ideas, and can independently apply the concept to new problems in unfamiliar situations. Children can demonstrate quick recall of facts and procedures - this includes the recollection of the times tables. Children will have the ability to recognise relationships and make connections in mathematics and showing a high level of pride in the presentation and understanding of their work.
Calculation Policies
Homework
At Shoreditch Park, all children between Years 1 and 6 use the maths online learning tool IXL. This website is an excellent resource which empowers children to independently progress in their learning in a fun, rewarding manner.
Children will practice their skills and work towards targets, which are tracked and monitored by their teacher. In addition to this, all work completed is analysed by teachers to support planning, teaching and progression for each and every child.
If your child does not have internet access, paper homework can be given as an alternative. Please see the quickstart handbook guide for information on how to use IXL or your child's teacher if you are unsure of the log in.
