Cathedral - Maths

Mathematics

At Cathedral Primary School, we aim for all children to become confident, resilient and creative mathematical thinkers. They will learn to be courageous, tackling ever-more complicated problems. Pupils will come to appreciate the beauty of Mathematics as a lifelong tool and interdisciplinary device for understanding the world around them. They will learn to make rich connections through conversion involving many voices that come together as one. Respecting each other’s thoughts and processes will be at the heart of their lessons. Throughout all children’s mathematical endeavours, they will show the ability to reason using appropriate and accurate language.

You can see a full overview of the intent, implementation and impact of our Maths curriculum here

The key ideas central to our approach are:

The Teaching for Mastery approach and the 5 Big Ideas for Mastery - fluency, representation and structure, mathematical thinking, variation and coherence. These will be evident in all lessons. (See diagram below)
Lessons provide an opportunity for reasoning and discussing methods and strategies.
We expect and encourage children to use mathematical language to describe, discuss, examine, explain, justify and synthesize
We follow NCETM's curriculum
We follow the CEEAAC pedagogical structure. This structure is designed to ensure all lessons include opportunities to retrieve and connect learning from the long-term memory to the working memory. It also gives children across the school equity of experience.
In EYFS, we follow the statutory framework for the early years foundation stage of which maths is a specific area of development.

Our Curriculum Maps

KS1 Top Tips & Games!

To help you with Mathematics learning at home, here are some top tips to support and some helpful websites filled with fun and engaging games!

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KS2 Tips & Games!

In KS2 we expect you to be practicing your times tables daily. There are lots of websites and fun games you can use to support with this (see below).

Please click here to watch a presentation about the Multiplication Tables Check that the children are required to complete in Year 4.

Please see the YouTube Channel link below. This will support with your home learning that your class teacher provides. It gives helpful hints and games you can play at home as well as showing you how to calculate using specific methods.

Please see below for some useful website links and games:

Practise your times tables daily – there is no such thing as too much.
Use mathframe.co.uk to find hundreds of math games and activities.
Roll a dice whatever number you roll multiply it by 100 (or 1000). Then see how many different ways you can make that number using all four operations.
Answer a fermi question (https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2017/04/28/fermi-questions/) such as How many balloons would it take to fill the small hall? How many hairs are on your head? How many grains of rice in a 10kg bag? (There are plenty more on the website)

Try a live problem on the nrich website. https://nrich.maths.org/8495 Many of them are interactive and you have the opportunity to submit a solution that might get published.

Maths Week

We had a wonderful Mathematics-filled week at school. Every class completed some cross-curricular Maths challenges.

We also had a surprise visit from Captain Morgan who lost his Good Ship Mathematics. All the children had to complete challenges set by the pirate to help him recover his ship. Below are a selection of photos fro m the week.