Maths - Curriculum Intent

At Woodley CofE we believe that maths is an important discipline which helps children and adults understand and change the world. Our intent is to help our children become confident mathematicians who recognise the significance of maths in the ‘real world’ and who are self-aware of their own strengths and weaknesses. We aim to foster a positive attitude to the subject and to help our children develop their fluency and reasoning skills as they move through our school. We teach mathematical concepts through small manageable steps and encourage our children to recognise mistakes and misconceptions as an essential part of their learning journey. In our school the majority of children will be taught the maths skills and concepts designated for their year group, but we recognise that flexibility will be needed to support those with additional needs.

At Woodley CofE Primary School, we aim to foster the following characteristics in our pupils during Maths lessons:

• become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics so that they develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
• be able to solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of problems with increasing sophistication, including in unfamiliar contexts and to model real-life scenarios
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry and develop and present a justification, argument or proof using mathematical language.
• have an appreciation of number and number operations, which enables mental calculations and written procedures to be performed efficiently, fluently and accurately to be successful in mathematics.