Intent

By the time our children leave Milstead we hope that they will have a love of mathematics. We believe the purpose of mathematics is not solely to gain classroom based skills, but to develop enquiry and reasoning skills and inquisitive minds that will develop through life. We want our children to understand, as they progress through the school, that maths is not only essential to everyday life, necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment but is also a fun and engaging experience. Our aim is to ensure that all children become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics and be able to solve problems.

So our aim is to ensure that all pupils:

• 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.
• 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.

Implementation

To ensure whole consistency and progression, the school uses the White Rose scheme of work that is matched to the DFE’s National Curriculum.

Mathematics is taught 5 times a week and offers the children the opportunity to have varied and frequent practice of their maths skills with the focus on their ability to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately. Reasoning is a key area in all our lessons as our children need to be able to describe, explain, convince, justify and prove to be successful in this subject. Mathematical vocabulary is an essential part of each lesson and the children need to understand this within the area they are studying and be able to make rich connections across other areas within this subject. Each lesson provides children with the opportunity to reason through their ideas, use their mathematical language to explore a line of enquiry to solve routine and non-routine problems.

Teaching will cater for the individual needs of the children and include some element of reasoning and problem solving. Challenging questioning is a key part of the maths lesson – allowing the children to demonstrate what they know and to extend their understanding.

At Milstead we teach Maths through White Rose and NCTEM Mastering Number.

Mastering Number

Milstead is taking part in the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) project to support the teaching of basic Maths skills in our school.

This project aims to secure firm foundations in the development of good number sense (a deep understanding of number) for all children from Reception through to Year 1 and Year 2.

The aim over time is that children will leave KS1 and begin KS2 with fluency in calculation and a confidence and flexibility with number. Research shows that children with secure ‘number sense’ early on will make more progress later on in Maths and across the curriculum.

Year R and 1 have a daily ‘Mastering Number’ session in addition to their timetabled Maths lesson. Over the year, the children will experience using a range of resources and representations, including a small abacus-like piece of equipment called a rekenrek.

Assessment and Feedback

- Assessment informs the teaching and learning sequence, and children work on the objectives they are assessed as being at.

 - Children who not making the required progress are given extra support through intervention sessions and support in class in order to meet our INTENT of developing pupils academically.

- Feedback is given on children’s learning in line with our feedback policy.

-Formative assessment within every lesson helps teachers to identify the children who need more support to achieve the intended outcome and who are ready for greater stretch and challenge through planned questioning or additional activities.

 - In order to support teacher judgments, children are assessed using current and reliable tests in line with the national curriculum for maths

- Analysis of any tests that the children complete is undertaken and fed into future planning. Summative assessments are completed at the end of every half term and at the academic year and help influence the overall judgement reported to parents in the end of year report.

Impact

The impact of the Mathematics emphasis and teaching at Milstead:

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 demonstrate quick recall of facts and procedures. This includes the recollection of the times tables.

 - The flexibility and fluidity to move between different contexts and representations of mathematics.

 - The ability to recognise relationships and make connections in mathematics.

 - Children show confidence in Believing that they will achieve.

 - Children show a high level of pride in the presentation and understanding of the work.

At Milstead we expect that by the end of Y6 our children:

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations.
• solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication

A fundamental part of maths is recall of times tables.  At Milstead all pupils are able to access Numbots and TTRockstars which is a fun, engaging way to practise times tables on a regular basis.  Pupils can compete against each other and even challenge teachers too!

All pupils have a username and password, this can also be downloaded to tablets and smart phones.  Pupils can be learning anywhere!

Click the following link to login:  https://play.ttrockstars.com/