The teaching of Maths is based on the National Curriculum and is supported by our mental maths and calculation policy. Our curriculum ensures aspects of fluency, reasoning and problem solving are incorporated around the key concepts being covered. We provide children with the ability to reason in a logical way and to apply mathematics through problem solving and becoming critical thinkers to deepen their understanding. We foster children’s love of maths through a range of purposeful experiences.

Maths at Horton Park includes:

1. Sticky Knowledge starters which revisit and provide spaced opportunities to recall key calculation skills
2. Learning which is broken down into place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and geometry
3. The 5 big ideas from the Mastery NCETM are incorporated:

• • Cohesion ensures ideas are broken down
  • Fluency of key maths skills and vocabulary are taught
  • Critical thinking via investigations and reasoning opportunities
  • Mathematical structure using resources, images and representations which are linked to the calculation policy
  • Through variation the children work on noticing and wondering what is the same and what is different