Maths
Maths
We follow the Power Maths Scheme.
The Power Maths Lessons are typically split into 6 key areas.
- Power Up- each lesson begins with a Power Up activity which supports fluency in key number facts and reinforces key skills such as times-tables, number bonds and working with place value. The whole-class approach depends on fluency, so the Power Up is a powerful and essential activity.
- Discover- the class are given a problem to solve, often a real-life example, sometimes a puzzle or a game to explore, which introduces the new learning. These are engaging and fun, and designed to get all children thinking. It is usually completed in pairs with concrete materials.
- Share- the class shares their ideas and compares different ways to solve the problem, explaining their reasoning with hands-on resources and drawings to make their ideas clear. Children are able to develop their understanding of the concept with input from the teacher.
- Thinking Together- the next part of the lesson is a journey through the concept, digging deeper and deeper so that each child builds on secure foundations while being challenged to apply their understanding in different ways and with increasing independence. It follows the ‘I do, we do, you do’ structure, which gives the children opportunities to think together in their groups and also work independently.
- Practice- now children practice individually or in small groups, rehearsing and developing their skills to build fluency, understanding of the concept and confidence. The children are encouraged to use concrete materials and mathematical representations and structures to support their understanding as necessary.
- Reflect- finally, children are prompted to reflect on and record their learning from each session and show how they have grasped the concept explored in the lesson.
Key points:
- We believe that every child can achieve.
- Small steps build a solid foundation of deep mathematical understanding.
- We builds pupils’ mathematical fluency without the need for rote learning.
- New concepts are introduced using the Concrete-Pictorial- Abstract (CPA) approach
- Pupils learn to think mathematically to find patterns, connections and relationships between different concepts.
Please click the links below for the yearly and termly overviews for each year group:
Froggy Maths
We have introduced Froggy Maths Club to St Paul's. This is a whole school initiative that encourages children to have faster recall of number facts. It starts from Year 1 all the way through to Year 6.
The programme starts with the 10 club and goes through to 99 club and then onto Superstars Division, Superstars Fractions and Squares and Cubes.
You can help your child at home by practising fast recall of number facts. Below is the list of clubs and the facts children need to learn for each club.
- 10 club : Addition facts to 10
- 11 Club: Subtraction fact to 10.
- 22 Club: Addition and subtraction facts to 20
- 33 Club: Facts from the 2, 5 and 10 times tables
- 44 Club: Facts from the 2, 5 10 and 3 times tables.
- 55 Club: Facts from the 2, 5, 10, 3 and 4 times tables.
- 66 Club: Facts from the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
- 77 Club: Facts from the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 8, 6, and 11 times tables.
- 88 Club: Facts from the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 8, 6, 11, 9 and 12 times tables
- 99 Club: Facts from all the tables up to 12 x 12
- Superstars Division 60 Club: Mental division sums using times table knowledge.
- Superstars Division 80 Club: Mental division sums using times table knowledge.
- Superstars Division 100 Club: Mental division sums using times table knowledge.
- Superstars Fractions 60 Club: Find fractions of numbers
- Superstars Fractions 80 Club: Find fractions of numbers
- Superstars Fractions 100 Club: Find fractions of numbers
- Squared Numbers
- Cubed Numbers
- Bronze Mix Up
- Silver Mix Up
- Gold Mix Up
By learning these number facts, we really hope that this programme will help your child carry out calculations more easily as they learn to use and apply their knowledge. There are lots of fun games to play that will encourage your child to learn their times tables without them even realising it!
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