Intent
At Handsworth Primary, we believe that ‘every child can achieve in Maths’ and it is our responsibility to provide the environment and experiences to make this possible.
We are passionate about all our children gaining natural curiosity and love for Maths, starting from their early years, where children explore numbers, patterns and connections and spatial reasoning through play and build on their Mathematical development as they progress throughout their years at Handsworth. We are committed to ensuring that our children can see Mathematics as an interconnected subject, to be able to make connections across mathematical ideas, develop their fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. We want our children to be able to apply their mathematical skills and knowledge confidently in their lives in a range of different contexts and understand the importance of Maths in the wider world.
The National Curriculum for Mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:
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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.
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reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
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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.
National Curriculum Mathematics Programmes of study for Key Stages 1 and 2
White Rose Maths National Curriculum Progression of Skills
Times Tables
At Handsworth, we recognise that fluency with times tables underpins mathematical understanding. Knowing your times tables will allow your child to easily grasp a wide variety of other concepts such as division, fractions, and percentages.
Click for the National Curriculum Times Table Expectations for each year group
More Times Tables Resources
www.timestables.co.uk includes interactive exercises and tests as well as test printouts.
www.topmarks.co.uk have a range of interactive games for both KS1 and KS2 to help develop the pace of times tables recall. ‘Hit The Button’ is popular and allows for quick-fire responses to develop speed of recall.
Resources
A multiplication squares can be useful for pattern spotting, for practice and for examining the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. For example, 9 x 8 = 72, therefore 72 ÷ 8 = 9 (This can be shown visually using the square
Please click here to print a copy of a multiplication square.
Please click here to print a blank copy of a multiplication square for practice
My child can recall all the facts to 12x12. What next?
Check for fluency (that facts can be recalled quickly).
Develop fluency with division facts. (If your child knows that 7 x 6 = 42, can they tell you that 42 ÷ 7 = 6 just as quickly?)
Look at how this knowledge can help with larger calculations (e.g. 7 x 60 = 420)
Encourage your child to think about how they might apply their times tables knowledge to real world or reasoning problems. The website nrich.maths.org can help with this.
Times Table Rockstars
At Handsworth, we have subscribed to Times Tables Rockstars, which is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice. It allows for the testing and tracking times tables learning and performance. It also offers the opportunity to play games against other users within the class, year groups and in fast-paced competitions in a fun and engaging way. Each child will be allocated their log in details, which can be located in their home school diary.
Calculation Policy
At Handsworth Primary School, we are following the White Rose Maths Mastery Scheme, which reflects and covers the National Curriculum objectives.
The Calculation Policy demonstrates a clear understanding of how all operations (+ - ÷ x) are taught sequentially through the year groups. Included are illustrations of how the teaching of calculations are modelled by teachers and how concepts are taught through the CPA process:
Concrete:
Children are given the opportunity to use concrete objects and manipulatives to help them understand what they are doing.
Pictorial:
Alongside, concrete, children use pictorial representations. These representations can then be used to help reason and solve problems.
Abstract:
Both concrete and pictorial representations support children’s understanding of abstract methods.
Addition and Subtraction Calculation Policy