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At Parkside Primary, we have adopted a mastery approach in order to deliver the three aims of the National Curriculum, fluency, reasoning and problem solving. Underpinning this pedagogy is a belief that all children can achieve in maths. We believe in promoting sustained and deepening understanding by employing a variety of mastery strategies, with teaching for conceptual understanding at the heart of everything we do. Our approach aims to provide all children with full access to the curriculum, enabling them to develop independence, confidence and competence – ‘mastery’ in mathematics in order to be independent mathematicians who are well equipped to apply their learning to the wider world.
The national curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:
Teaching for Mastery aims to provide all children with full access to the curriculum, enabling them to achieve confidence and competence – ‘mastery’ – in mathematics, rather than many failing to develop the maths skills they need for the future.
Key features of our Maths Mastery curriculum:
Mathematics Mastery places emphasis on the cumulative mastery of essential knowledge and skills in mathematics. It embeds a deeper understanding of maths by utilising a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach so that pupils understand what they are doing rather than just learning to repeat routines without grasping what is happening.
Have a look at the 'What are we learning?' section on each year group's page to see what they are covering in maths.
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:
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?
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/maths-owl/fun-activities
www.mathplayground.com/games.html
How to learn your x tables
www.mathplayground.com/howto_learnmultfacts.html
https://www.solitaireparadise.com/games_list/table-trees.html
www.mathplayground.com/spaceracer_multiplication.html
www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html
KS1 bitesize
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/
KS2 bitesize
Click here for videos illustrating methods used in maths in the different year groups.
Click the link below to view all maths related tweets.