Intent
At St Mary Magdalen’s, we recognise the unique talents and skills of all of our pupils and through our mathematics curriculum we aim to create inquisitive individuals who are empowered mathematical thinkers.
We provide a high quality, challenging and enjoyable mathematics curriculum that can be accessed by all through our ‘Differentiation through depth’ approach. Our curriculum builds on consolidated mathematical skills in order for our pupils to become confident risk takers and independent learners. We aim for all of our pupils to become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics through varied and frequent practise and provide them opportunities to apply learnt mathematical skills in different contexts across the curriculum.
Rapid and accurate recall of mathematical knowledge, skills and vocabulary is promoted throughout the school as this underpins our vision for enabling our pupils to become independent learners who can effectively reason and solve rich deep problems built on skills previously learnt.
Through teaching with a mastery approach, children are challenged, at all levels in mathematics, and will learn to understand, distil and clarify information; consider what they know that will help them to solve problems, realising what they need to know next; create systems and strategies, organising information in a way that helps find patterns and ultimately solutions and to communicate and present their findings effectively.
Decisions about when our pupils progress is based on the security of their understanding and their readiness to progress to the next stage. Pupils who grasp concepts rapidly are challenged through being offered rich and sophisticated problems before any further new content is taught. Those who are not sufficiently fluent with earlier material are allowed to consolidate their understanding including through additional practise before moving on.
We provide our pupils with the mathematical building blocks to provide a solid foundation to lead them onto secondary, further and higher education. In doing so, we instil in our pupils that mathematics is a subject which is essential to everyday life and will equip them with the necessary financial and workplace skills needed for future employment.
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