Maths

Subject Leaders

Maths at Ingleby Mill Primary School

At Ingleby Mill Primary School, mathematics is a central part of our curriculum, underpinning the development of all areas. It provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject. It helps children to make sense of their world by communicating through numbers, symbols and shapes. It is a language used to solve problems in everyday life. Maths is not seen as an isolated subject, we recognise that maths is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering and other forms of employment.

All pupils, when introduced to a key new concept, have the opportunity to build competency by taking the following approach. Pupils are encouraged to physically represent mathematical concepts. Objects and pictures are used to demonstrate and visualise abstract ideas, alongside numbers and symbols.

Concrete – children have the opportunity to use concrete objects and manipulatives to help them understand and explain what they are doing.
Pictorial – children then build on this concrete approach by using pictorial representations, which can then be used to reason and solve problems.
Abstract – With the foundations firmly laid, children can move to an abstract approach using numbers and key concepts with confidence.

In the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), we relate the mathematical aspects of the children’s work to the Development Matters statements and the Early Learning Goals (ELG), as set out in the EYFS profile document.

We aim to provide a high-quality mathematics curriculum so that all children:

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics;
• reason mathematically;
• can solve problems by applying their mathematics.

Sequencing

The fundamental idea behind our curriculum design is to support pupils to be able to perform simpler tasks so they can then move on to perform more complex tasks. For example, we cannot expect pupils to add two numbers together before they understand what each individual number represents.
This thinking gives rise to a typical sequence of ‘blocks’ of mathematics that you will see in each of our year groups.
Within each of these blocks we then have ‘small steps’ which are again sequenced in order of difficulty and dependency.

How will we achieve this?

Our children follow a carefully structured Mathematics curriculum, which has been designed to ensure children, know more, remember more and can do more as they progress through our school. The curriculum is supported by external resources from providers such as White Rose Maths, Abacus, Doodle Maths, Busy Things and Times Table Rock Stars. Our curriculum is designed to support teachers in all aspects of their planning and assessment whilst delivering sequenced and progressive maths lessons effectively.
Pupil engagement, effort and progress are all celebrated to help ensure our pupils master mathematics at Ingleby Mill Primary School.

VALUES – Across all areas of learning we value:
Happiness – when we enjoy what we are doing, we learn at our best
Confidence – when we have confidence, we will always ‘have a go’
Creativity – when our creativity is developed, we can think and learn in imaginative ways
Perseverance – when we are encouraged to keep going, even when the going gets tough, we develop resilience, positive outlooks and self-belief
Respect – when we are respectful, we see things through the eyes of others

To find out more about what happens in the Maths curriculum at Ingleby Mill, please click on the links below for our Curriculum Maps and Policies. Scroll down to view our gallery of photos showing work in Maths.

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