Maths

Intent

Our vision for Maths at Leverhulme Community Primary School is a mastery approach that gives pupils the opportunity to expand upon, question and develop their mathematical skills, understanding and knowledge, which they can apply to problem-solving opportunities that they will encounter in their everyday lives.

Leverhulme Community Primary School recognises that maths is both an essential skill within school, and a life skill to be utilised through everyday experiences. Mathematics teaches children how to make sense of the world around them through their ability to calculate, reason and solve problems. It nurtures important qualities within children, such as creativity and abstract or spatial thinking, which allows them to recognise and understand relationships and patterns in both number and space in their everyday lives. Through their growing knowledge and understanding, children learn to appreciate that maths is a powerful and incredibly useful tool developed and applied by many different cultures and communities.

Through the teaching of maths at Leverhulme, our objectives are:

To promote enjoyment of learning through practical activity, exploration, experimentation and discussion.
A positive attitude towards maths and an awareness of the relevance of maths in everyday life.
An ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others.
To promote competence, curiosity and confidence in pupils’ maths knowledge, concepts and skills.
To develop the ability to solve problems through decision-making and reasoning in a range of contexts.
To develop a practical understanding of the ways in which information is gathered and presented.
To explore features of shape and space, and develop measuring skills in a range of contexts.