The National Curriculum for Mathematics has 3 core aims:
- Fluency
- Reasoning
- Problem Solving
As a school, we believe that children learn best in maths when concepts are broken down into small, managable steps. We teach using a method that first uses concrete resources to demonstrate a concept, followed by pictorial representations and finally in a more abstract way (known as the CPA approach). We use the White Rose Maths Hub Scheme of Work in order to achieve this.
Our Calculation Policies set out for each year group show the concrete, pictorial and abstract methods we teach for each of the four claculations.