Maths
At Stanton Road, we explore Maths through ‘Power Maths’ and the mastery approach, to ensure that every child becomes the master of their own mathematical journey. The Maths curriculum at Stanton Road has been designed to enable our children to develop fluent knowledge, understanding, and recall of essential mathematical facts and to use this mathematical knowledge to solve problems in a variety of contexts. It promotes mathematical thinking, reasoning and discussion and enables children to see the importance and relevance of Mathematics in everyday life. The Maths curriculum at Stanton Road is carefully sequenced and split into declarative, procedural and conditional knowledge to ensure children develop mathematical fluency and an understanding of mathematical concepts through small step progression.
Declarative knowledge is needed for automaticity. Opportunities to both learn and use this knowledge are given until both speed and accuracy of recall is achieved.
Procedural knowledge is integrated within our curriculum by teaching efficient and accurate methods of calculations to enabled fluidity in systematic methods, algorithms, or procedures.
Within their learning, children can combine declarative and procedural knowledge, which feeds into mathematical reasoning and problem-solving tasks. This can consist of abstract, real world, routine, or non-routine problems. This is their opportunity to showcase their conditional knowledge. The development of problem-solving and reasoning skills is at the core of our Mathematics curriculum. We strive to empower our children to confidently approach investigative tasks that foster critical thinking, logical reasoning, and effective problem-solving strategies.
Each year group's curriculum is tailored to the needs and abilities of the children, ensuring progression and building on prior knowledge and skills. We ensure children establish a secure foundation of knowledge before providing opportunities to develop a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. Through our Concrete Pictorial Abstract (CPA) approach, children use manipulatives and visual representations to understand mathematical ideas, which enables a smooth transition towards abstract symbols and calculations. Opportunities for children to retrieve knowledge from long-term memory are carefully considered and planned into the curriculum.
Fluency sessions and Mastering number
Alongside Power Maths lessons, we teach daily fluency sessions to enhance the efficiency of our teaching methods. These sessions include the teaching of essential mathematical skills and incorporate retrieval techniques to ensure long-term retention of knowledge.
Foundation 2 (F2), Key Stage 1 (KS1), Year 4, and Year 5 students are embarking on a comprehensive number mastery program. This program, developed by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), is designed to help students recall crucial mathematical information, such as multiplication facts. Through this program, our children are becoming more adept mathematicians who utilise key facts as building blocks to expand their knowledge-base.
Assessment and monitoring
Assessment in Mathematics is an ongoing process, integrating both formative and summative assessments. We use a range of assessment strategies, including:
Regular classwork and TTRS
Verbal and written feedback
Quizzes and tests
Pupil self-assessment and reflection
Termly NTS assessments
Curriculum Champions
The Maths curriculum champion will conduct regular evaluations of our Maths Curriculum, which include lesson drop ins, pupil panels and book looks to measure the impact of our teaching, by assessing whether our children know more and can remember more.