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Chyngton Primary School

 

Maths

Curriculum Intent 

We teach mathematics to ensure that all children leave our school fluent and confident with numbers and able to reason and apply their learning to practical problems. We aim to develop the interest and ability to use maths in everyday life and continue to be life-long mathematical learners.

Our Maths Curriculum

At Chyngton Primary School, we believe that every child deserves the opportunity to develop a strong foundation in mathematics. To achieve this, we follow the White Rose Maths curriculum, a well-established and highly regarded approach to teaching maths.

The White Rose curriculum focuses on mastery learning, ensuring that students understand key concepts deeply before moving on to more complex topics. This approach is designed to promote confidence in mathematics and help children build problem-solving and reasoning skills that will serve them well throughout their education and beyond.

How We Teach Maths

Structured Learning
Our lessons are carefully planned and structured, providing clear steps to help children progress at their own pace. Key areas of focus include:

  • Fluency: Ensuring children can recall and apply mathematical facts and concepts with confidence.
  • Reasoning: Encouraging children to think logically and explain their thought processes.
  • Problem Solving: Giving children the skills to apply their mathematical knowledge to solve real-world problems.

Progression and Depth
The White Rose curriculum is designed to build on what students have learned previously, reinforcing skills and introducing new challenges as they progress through each year. Concepts are introduced gradually, and the focus is on achieving mastery, not just completion of tasks.

Key Stages of Our Maths Journey

  • Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS): We begin with number recognition, counting, and simple problem-solving activities, laying the groundwork for later learning.
  • Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2): Children explore topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as shapes and measurements. Our focus is on building a solid understanding of number facts and relationships.
  • Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6): In these years, pupils deepen their understanding of mathematical concepts, including fractions, decimals, percentages, and more complex multiplication and division. Problem-solving and reasoning become central to their learning.

A Whole-School Approach

We believe in a whole-school approach to maths, ensuring that every child has access to high-quality teaching and resources. White Rose Maths, which is blended with other trusted sources of resources, to create a clear scheme of work and set of resources that allow our teachers to tailor their lessons to the needs of each child, ensuring everyone can progress and succeed.

Supporting Your Child’s Learning at Home

There are many ways you can help your child with their maths skills at home:

  • Times Tables: Practice times tables through fun games or quizzes to help your child master them.
  • Telling the Time: Encourage your child to read both analogue and digital clocks as much as possible.
  • Cooking Together: Use cooking to talk about weights and measurements, and encourage them to use a non-digital scale.
  • Shopping with Real Money: Involve your child in buying items with real money and calculating change to help them understand value and maths in everyday situations.

At Chyngton Primary School, we aim to make maths an enjoyable and rewarding subject for every child, fostering a positive attitude towards learning and building a lifelong love for numbers.

Useful links for parents

Multiplication and Division
Online Games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication

Games to play at home.
http://mathperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cups-of-counters-at-home.pdf
http://mathperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/How-many-in-the-cups-at-home.pdf

Counting
Online Games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/counting2/interactive/countto100seq/countto100seq.htm

Games to play at home
http://mathperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Grab-a-Handful-At-Home-.pdf

Addition and Subtraction Activities
Online Games
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/addition/fruit-splat-game/
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/popup/popup_subtraction.htm
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Games to play at home:
The resources that you will need for these games are: paper, a pencil/pen, a cup, small items to count (such as counters, marbles, Lego bricks or dried pasta). 
http://mathperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Tub-Game-at-home-REV-4-7-20.pdf
http://mathperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Grab-Bag-Subtraction-at-home-REV-4-7-20.pdf

Time and Resources Activities
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

You can play with setting time on the clock and explore how the clock works in relation to time including seconds, minutes and hours.

Practical Activities:
When cooking dinner (whether it be you or your grown ups), can you write down the timings? This includes how long it takes to prepare the food as well as how long it takes to bake a cake.

Can you time yourself doing your daily exercise? How long did it take? What time did you start? What time did you finish?

Can you challenge someone at home to the time game that Stephen Mulhern loves to play on his Saturday evening TV programme 'In for a Penny'? You decide on a set amount of seconds as the target (e.g. 10 seconds), the judge has a stopwatch and tells you when to begin. You need to tell the judge to stop the stopwatch when you think it has been that exact number of seconds. Keep taking it in turns and changing the target.

Times Tables Songs
Many of you will be using Times Tables Rockstars to practise your times tables but you can also use songs. Here are some great ones that you might want to learn:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vNwMWiNxgE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVIQ7RpMvE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aciiJVB9Vgg

BBC Bitesize
The BBC Bitesize website is fantastic for reviewing topics and going over key skills. Here are some areas you might like to recap:

Addition and Subtraction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39
Multiplication and Division: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z36tyrd
Fractions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb

Topmarks Website - Games and Activities
Topmarks is a great website for online learning games. We have selected some useful ones to support with various areas of learning.

Ordering numbers: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering  and https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/chinese-dragon-orderin

Subtraction: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
Counting: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
Multiplication, Division, Halving and Doubling: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Four Operations: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Rounding: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding
Money: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Time: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Carol Vorderman - The Maths Factor
This website is free to sign up to. We would recommend your grown ups creating a login; you can then explore all of the online activities that they have available.
https://www.themathsfactor.com/