Our Intention for Maths at Wentworth

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Our intention for Maths at Wentworth is to develop all children’s conceptual and procedural understanding of mathematics. Our curriculum is scaffolded and enriched accordingly to enable all children to access all learning, maximising the development of every child’s ability and their personal academic achievement. Knowledge and skills will become embedded through our carefully planned and sequenced curriculum ensuring all concepts are applied to real life contexts.

 

We want children to make rich connections across all areas of the curriculum to ensure our learners are mathematically curious and strive for greater understanding. 

 

Each year group will cover units of work so that 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

 

All children from EYFS to Year 6 are taught using the CPA approach - concrete, pictorial and abstract. This is harnessed and developed through the use of Power Maths. Our curriculum across the school, from EYFS to Year 6, is crafted from this resource to ensure all children have a progressive curriculum of Maths. Furthermore, we use Mastering Number as a core resource to building fluency and number sense in the Early Years and KS1.