"Mathematical understanding is a journey... not a destination"
- Dr Yeap Ban Haar (Internationally Renowned Maths Expert)
Introduction
At Christ Church Primary, we aspire to deliver an engaging mathematics curriculum that promotes children’s love for the subject and encourages them to become curious, creative, resilient and confident mathematicians. In an ever evolving technological world, it has never been more important to prepare our pupils and encourage them to become accurate, efficient, and flexible problem solvers.
Aims
Here at Christ Church, we follow the Statutory Framework for the EYFS and National Curriculum to teach mathematics. The national curriculum for mathematics aims 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 nonroutine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
Our curriculum is primarily delivered using NCETM resources and Maths No Problem in KS1/ 2 and follows a mastery approach underpinned by the 5 Big Ideas for mastery.
For more information, please download The 5 Big Ideas at Christ Church Explained document.
Parental Engagement
At Christ Church, parents play a very active role in the implementation of our Maths Curriculum to support Maths Mastery. This is achieved through:
Parental engagement with children’s learning is effectively supported when parents receive clear, specific and targeted information from schools and this is precisely what Christ Church aims to achieve.
How you can help at home
There are lots of ways to help to build your child's confidence in maths. There are many fun games and activities you can do with your child that practise maths skills. Most children love playing games and it's an easy way to support their learning.
Tips for helping your child to enjoy maths:
Useful websites
Using online resources is a good way to get your child to practise their maths skills at home. The following websites have fun games and activities to help their learning. Why not try these?
How to learn your x tables
KS1 bitesize
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/
KS2 bitesize