At Mansfield Green E-ACT Primary Academy, we believe that all children can achieve in mathematics, and teach for secure and deep understanding of mathematical concepts. As children progress through school, their prior knowledge is activated through teaching and new information is linked to prior learning helping to develop pupil’s schema in the key areas and securing this information in the long term memory.
In EYFS, our pupils are taught about numbers, space, shape and measures allowing for subsequent years to build on these foundations. This is done frequently through deliberate practice and gap getting as well as through exposure to new content that builds on prior learning in both our daily maths lessons and our daily maths meeting.
All of our maths lessons, from the early years through to Year 6, provide pupils with an opportunity to meet the aims of the national curriculum where they build up their fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills. Our learners are exposed to rich and specific vocabulary. Our lessons follow a consistent approach where new content is taught and modelled explicitly and pupils from Year 1 to 6 are provided with a series of standard and non-standard questions that are linked directly to their learning objectives. Pupils are then encouraged to reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry and develop and present a justification, argument or proof using mathematical language. This learning is secured through depth of understanding whereby pupils apply the skills and knowledge learnt to a variety of problems with increasing sophistication, including in unfamiliar contexts and to model real-life scenarios.
To support these aims and principals, we utilise and embed the ‘Five Strands of Mathematic Proficiency’. These strands and more information can be seen below:
Intent
Mathematics is an interconnected subject in which pupils need to be able to move fluently between representations of mathematical ideas. Click on the link below to explore our approach to Mathematics including our intent of the curriculum, how we will implement it and the impact that it will have.
Mathematics Curriculum Intent 2023-24
Progression Grids
Every child will build and progress on their foundations and previous Mathematical learning each academic year. To see an overview of what that progression will look like in each area of Mathematics, click on the link below:
Vocabulary
Vocabulary understanding is a major contributor to overall comprehension in many content areas, including Mathematics. To find out what vocabulary each academic year group will cover, click on the link below:
Mathematics Vocabulary EYFS – Year 6
Mathematics Across the Curriculum
Connecting even two subjects together with a similar lesson focus can deepen and expand learning at all levels. Cross–Curricular learning prepares the way for students to learn and work together, which is more reflective of real life. To discover how Mathematics looks across the curriculum at Mansfield Green, click the link below:
Mathematics Across the Curriculum
High Level Overviews & Planning 2023-24
