Vision: Respect Ourselves, Grow Together, Learn Forever
Belief + Hard Work + Understanding = Success
INTENT
At Greenmeadow Primary School, we foster positive ‘can do’ attitudes and believe all children can achieve in mathematics, now and for the future. We provide a broad, flexible and exciting journey and teach for secure and deep understanding of mathematical concepts. We use mistakes and misconceptions as an essential part of learning and provide challenge through rich and sophisticated problems before acceleration through new content. Mathematics is an important creative discipline that inspires us and helps us to understand and change the world. We want all pupils at Greenmeadow Primary School to progressively build on their understanding of mathematics and develop a sense of curiosity about the subject through relevant first-hand experiences in ways that support positive mental health by enabling all children to succeed.
IMPLEMENTATION
At Greenmeadow Primary School, we adopt a mastery approach with our belief that all children are mathematicians and can succeed in maths. Our approach supports, motivates and challenges all children and encourages a positive attitude towards mathematics.
Mathematics Lessons
Each lesson focuses on a manageable step of new learning based on the NC statements. Children will work through the steps below at their individual pace to complete as many of the steps as they can.
Typical Lesson design:
1) Hook It: Introduction
2) ‘I do’: Live modelling of the new learning with explicit use of potential misunderstandings
3) ‘We do’: All children practise together Support & Challenge
4) ‘You do’: Children independently complete examples, teacher identifies those needing support.
5) Do It: Up to 5 examples – 5 ‘What it is’ or ‘3+2 ‘What it is/What it’s also’ Challenge 1: Procedural Fluency
6) Secure It: 1 or 2 Misunderstandings (True/false, Spot the mistake) Challenge 2: Conceptual Understanding
7) Deepen It: Apply understanding to solve new problems Challenge 3: Mathematical Thinking
8) Challenge It: Apply the manageable step in a different context.
9) Extend it: Children create their own questions linked to the manageable step.
10) Review It: Lesson Recap: Key Concept Statement and Key Vocabulary
MathsOnTrack (MOT) Meetings
The daily MOT sessions provide an opportunity to address any identified gaps in learning, reinforce prior learning and may introduce new learning to inform future lessons.
Day 1: Arithmetic
Day 2: Problem solving
Day 3: Deliberate Practice: Past and Present
Day 4: Deliberate Practice: Past and Present
Day 5: Arithmetic
IMPACT
We aim for:
+ Children to become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics (see Year by Year Curriculum Maps) so that they develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
+ Children to be able to solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of problems with increasing sophistication, including in unfamiliar contexts and to model real-life scenarios.
+ Children to develop their ability to reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry and develop and present a justification, argument or proof using mathematical language.
+ Children to have an appreciation of number and number operations, which enables mental calculations and written procedures to be performed efficiently, fluently and accurately.
+ Children to develop life-long enthusiasm and curiosity towards mathematical ideas and concepts.
+ Termly assessments which are used to monitor progress and used to build and plan the MOT sessions.
What is my child taught?
All children are taught the knowledge and skills that are specified by the Mathematics Curriculum 2014.
The Programmes of Study are:
- Place Value
- Adding and Subtracting
- Multiply and Divide
- Fractions
- Measure
- Geometry
- Statistics
As each child journeys through the school he/she will be taught increasingly more complex knowledge and skills.
The pupils are then continually provided with opportunities to reason and apply their knowledge and skills and solve more complex problems.
Mathematics Learning Progression
INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
Please see the link below for the Greenmeadow Whole School Calculation policy/strategies. This policy models the strategies we use within school to support the learning of each of the calculations including addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. In the top left corner of each page you will see a number in a square, this represents the year group it applies to and allows you to see the progression of the strategies as children move up through the school.
Whole School Calculation Strategies
Knowledge Organisers by Strand - Place Value, Geometry, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions
Knowledge Organisers by Year Group - Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
