Mathematics
At the Grove Infant School and Nursery we believe that every child has the capacity to succeed in maths. We follow a mastery approach which means recognising the power to think rather than just do and to tackle concepts in very small cumulative steps of learning. By creating a solid foundation of deep understanding our children’s skills and confidence will be secure. There is also a key emphasis on spoken language and you will often hear sentence stems with key vocabulary being used to underpin learning in lessons.
We embrace a CPA approach where pupils initially use a range of concrete resources such as numicon, tens frames, tens and ones apparatus (base 10)and beadstrings to support their understanding. Alongside the physical manipulationpupils are encouraged to model using pictorial representations before using (abstract) mathematical language to record. You will see this in all year groups as new concepts are introduced and as existing concepts arebuilt upon as pupils progress.
Reasoning and problem solving are woven throughout our mathematical learning as these are key to ensuring pupils conceptual understanding of the mathematics involved. Allpupils are encouraged to explain, prove/disprove and persuade others of their answers.
We challenge those children who can understand more deeply with deepening activities and we support children who might need extra scaffolding, as necessary.
We follow the Herts for Learning Essential maths planningdocumentation which follows a spiral progression. There is an increased emphasis on practical exploration alongside a focuson languageto secure and deepen learning as well as the playing of games to build and embed fluency.
Each academic year we adapt the planned sequences prioritising key learning based on our ongoing assessment of need to support the learning of each cohort of pupils.
Please find below resources that show our curriculum coverage and that will support you with key ideas and vocabulary.
We have a strong focus on promoting maths all around us and as a STEM subject.
Maths KS1 curriculum documents
Year 1 Vocabulary Posters For Your Child
Year 2 Vocabulary Posters For Your Child
What is Number Sense? This is an interesting video made by Stanford University about Number sense, which it is well worth having a look at.