Maths at Maple Infants' School

At Maple Infants’ School we aim to instil a love of Maths and encourage children to become confident, inquisitive learners.
 
It is important that the children develop a positive attitude towards Maths and understand its use in everyday life.  Maths equips children with a powerful set of tools to understand and change the world, such as logical reasoning and problem solving skills.  Maths can be a creative subject, giving rise to moments of wonder when a child solves a problem for the first time or suddenly sees a hidden connection.

In all areas of learning, including Mathematics, we actively promote children’s ‘growth mind-set’ – those with a growth mindset believe that intelligence and abilities can be developed through effort, persistence, trying different strategies and learning from mistakes.
At Maple, we believe that an environment that promotes enjoyment and curiosity of mathematics provides all children with strong foundations for further mathematics learning.

Through engaging, high quality teaching, children have opportunities to apply mathematical language and express their growing mathematical thinking when reasoning.

​Our aim is for children to develop fluency in fundamental mathematical concepts and have a variety of strategies they can draw upon when problem solving. We want children to leave our infant school with mathematical confidence.
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The National Curriculum

KS1 follow the National Curriculum.  The National Curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils:
  • become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
  • reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
  • can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.​

Maple Mathematics At Home

Here are some useful documents that may help you to support your child at home in Mathematics - please click on the image to open the full documents:
Please note, many of the resources above are copyrighted materials - property of Mathematics Mastery.  
​These should only be used by children who attend Maple Infants' School.  Thank you. 

Useful Websites

Here are some recommended websites that may be used to explore ideas and concepts in mathematics:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks
Numberblocks on BBC provides short, child-friendly video clips for early mathematics concepts. They were created alongside mathematicians and educationalists. On their website you can find all episodes, as well as a range of games and suggestions for how you can use the clips to support your child’s maths development at home.
​https://www.busythings.co.uk/
Your child will be able to log into Busy Things with their school login details to access a range of fun maths games suited to their age. 
​https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html
There are a range of interactive games and resources on this website for children aged between 5 and 8 years old. They are ordered by topic. 
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​https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
Online maths games grouped by age category for a variety of topics.