maths mastery

At Etching Hill, we aim to provide a Maths curriculum that fosters a love of Maths and provides children with the skills needed to be competent and skilled Mathematicians. As a school we want to promote enjoyment and enthusiasm for learning through practical activity, exploration and discussion providing maths lessons that pupils look forward to, in which they can maximise their potential.

When teaching mathematics at Etching Hill, we intend to provide a curriculum which caters for the needs of all individuals and provides them with the necessary and relevant skills and knowledge for them to become successful in their future. We incorporate sustained levels of challenge through varied and high-quality activities with a focus on fluency, reasoning and problem solving to meet the goal of ‘True Fluency’. Pupils are required to explore maths in depth, using mathematical vocabulary to reason and explain their workings. A wide range of mathematical resources are used and pupils are taught to show their workings in a concrete (concrete is the “doing” stage, using concrete objects to model problems), pictorial (pictorial is the “seeing” stage, using representations of the objects to model problems), and abstract (abstract is the “symbolic” stage, where children are able to use abstract symbols), form wherever suitable. They are taught to explain their choice of methods and develop their mathematical reasoning skills. We encourage resilience and acceptance that challenge is often a necessary step in learning. Our rigorous curriculum allows children to better make sense of the world around them relating the pattern between mathematics and everyday life.