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Repton Manor Primary School Aims for Mathematics
• To foster positive attitudes, fascination and excitement of discovery through the teaching and learning of mathematical concepts.
• To develop confident, resilient and proactive learners who are masters of their own learning and who perceive themselves as mathematicians.
• To ensure pupils become fluent in the fundamentals of Mathematics, developing conceptual knowledge and an ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately through the use of a wide range of models, visual manipulatives and practical resources.
• To ensure that pupils can reason mathematically and solve problems so that they may be equipped with a life-long skill that opens the door to opportunity.
• To ensure children use and understand mathematical language and recognise its importance as a language for communication and thinking.
• To implement the current legal requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and the National Curriculum (NC).
National Curriculum Aims for Mathematics at Key Stage One and Key Stage Two
Aims:
The National Curriculum for Mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:
• 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.
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
• 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.
Mathematics within Early Years Foundation Stage
The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (DfE, 2017)
• The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (DfE, 2017) framework and guidance for Mathematics, as one of the four specific areas*, aims to ensure that children are provided with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measure.
The Early Learning Goals for Mathematics (DfE, 2017)
• Numbers: children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
• Shape, space and measures: children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
* Specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied, include essential skills and knowledge for children to participate successfully in society. The specific areas are: Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.
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