Mathematics | Middlestown Primary Academy

Mathematics Curriculum Statement

Mathematics introduces children to concepts, skills and thinking strategies that are essential in everyday life and supports learning across the curriculum. It helps children make sense of the numbers, patterns and shapes they see in the world around them; offers ways of handling data in an increasingly digital world and makes a crucial contribution to their development as successful learners.

At Middlestown Primary Academy, Mathematics equips pupils with the uniquely powerful set of tools to understand and change the world. We believe that Mathematics is integral to all aspects of life and we aim to ensure that children develop a positive and enthusiastic attitude in Mathematics that will stay with them throughout their lives.

Through our creative approach to teaching and learning, we also seek to explore and utilise further opportunities to use and apply Mathematics across all subject areas so when our pupils leave us, they are numerate, creative, independent, inquisitive, enquiring and confident learners.

Key Documents

EYFS Programme of Study Year 1 Programme of Study Year 2 Programme of Study Year 3 Programme of Study Year 4 Programme of Study Year 5 Programme of Study Year 6 Programme of Study Progression of Learning Objectives: Year 1 to Year 6 Glossary of Mathematical Terms

Overviews

Teachers carefully sequence their lessons throughout the year so that learning progresses from year group to year group, building on their learning term by term. By creating a yearly overview, maths lessons are sequenced to ensure pupils develop their fluency in facts and procedures as well as making links between different mathematical concepts.

EYFS

Lower Foundation Maths Overview Upper Foundation Maths Overview

Key Stage 1

Year 1 Maths Overview Year 2 Maths Overview

Key Stage 2

Year 3 Maths Overview Year 4 Maths Overview Year 5 Maths Overview Year 6 Maths Overview

Topics Covered

Foundation Stage

Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, use the operations addition and subtraction and solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.

Key Stage 1

The principal focus of Mathematics teaching in Key Stage 1 is to ensure that children develop confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value which involves working with numerals, words and the four operations. Additionally, the children will use these skills to solve reasoning problems.

Lower Key Stage 2: Years 3-4

The principal focus of Mathematics teaching in lower Key Stage 2 is to ensure that children become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations, including number facts and the concept of place value. This should ensure that children develop efficient written and mental methods and perform calculations accurately with increasingly large whole numbers. At this stage, children develop their ability to solve a range of reasoning problems, including with simple fractions and decimal place value.

Teaching should also ensure that pupils draw with increasing accuracy and develop mathematical reasoning so they can analyse shapes and their properties, and confidently describe the relationships between them. It should ensure that they can use measuring instruments with accuracy and make connections between measure and number. By the end of Year 4, pupils should have memorised their multiplication tables up to and including the 12 multiplication table and show precision and fluency in their work. Pupils should read and spell mathematical vocabulary correctly and confidently, using their growing word reading knowledge and their knowledge of spelling.

Upper Key Stage 2: Years 5-6

The principal focus of Mathematics teaching in upper Key Stage 2 is to ensure that children extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. This should develop the connections that children make between multiplication and division with fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio.

At this stage, children develop their ability to solve a wider range of reasoning problems, including increasingly complex properties of numbers and arithmetic, and problems demanding efficient written and mental methods of calculation. With this foundation in arithmetic, children are introduced to the language of algebra as a means for solving a variety of problems. Teaching in geometry and measures should consolidate and extend knowledge developed in number. Teaching should also ensure that pupils classify shapes with increasingly complex geometric properties and that they learn the vocabulary they need to describe them.

By the end of Year 6, the aim is for the children to be fluent in written methods for all four operations, including long multiplication and division, and in working with fractions, decimals and percentages. Pupils should read, spell and pronounce mathematical vocabulary correctly.

Parent Information Sheets

As the children progress through school, they are taught different methods of how to calculate using the four operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing).

Early Years

The foundation for this knowledge starts in Early Years where the children focus on the basic principals of counting and recognising numerals or significance through a wide range of manipulatives. The children are then presented with opportunities to apply these in areas of provision.

EYFS Parent Information Sheet

Key Stage 1

In both Years 1 and 2, the children continue to develop their fluency with their calculations using pictorial representations and jottings to help them solve problems.

Year 1 Parent Information Sheet Year 2 Parent Information Sheet

Key Stage 2

When moving into KS2, the children now learn the formal methods of how to add, subtract, multiply and divide, however manipulatives are still used to help children with new concepts introduced.

Year 3 Parent Information Sheet Year 4 Parent Information Sheet Year 5 Parent Information Sheet Year 6 Parent Information Sheet

Useful Websites

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