School Curriculum - Maths
Intent
At Kirkbymoorside Primary School, our intent for mathematics is to teach a rich, balanced and progressive curriculum which caters for the needs of all children through a mastery approach. Our curriculum allows children to reason, problem solve and develop fluent conceptual understanding in each area of mathematics. The structure of the mathematics curriculum across school shows clear progression in line with age related expectations, where a mixture of concrete, pictorial and abstract approaches are used to support, strengthen and deepen all children’s understanding of mathematics knowledge. Our curriculum places mathematics as a high profile subject, where we aim to provide all children with the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in their future adventures.
Our curriculum mirrors the intentions of the Mathematics National Curriculum by ensuring that all children:
- 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. Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which pupils need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas.
At Kirkbymoorside Primary School, children are required to explore maths in depth, using mathematical vocabulary to reason and explain their answers. A wide range of mathematical manipulatives, structures and representations are used and children are taught to show their mathematical workings in a concrete, pictorial and abstract form wherever suitable. They are taught to explain their choice of methods, digging deeper into the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of mathematics to further develop their mathematical reasoning skills. We encourage resilience, adaptability and acceptance that ‘struggle’ is often a necessary step in learning. Our curriculum allows children to better make sense of the world around them relating the pattern between mathematics and everyday life.
