Maths

At Marsh Infant School we make maths exciting, enjoyable and stimulating. We provide high quality maths teaching, which is engaging, interactive and builds upon children’s prior learning. Mathematics is vital in everyday life and, with this in mind, the purpose of Mathematics at our school is to develop an ability and desire to solve problems, to reason, to think logically and to work systematically and accurately. Our intent is to have a mathematics curriculum which is accessible to all, regardless of ability and will maximise every child’s potential. We aim for our children to be confident, enthusiastic and able mathematicians who are independent, inquisitive and not afraid to take risks. We want them to visualise numbers in their heads and work out calculations efficiently with an ambitious, determined and positive mind-set. We want them to be fluent with number and be able to use resources effectively to create good concrete, factual and conceptual understanding. Using this fluency, we want children to make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems. We want them to be resilient when faced with problems and to know that they can draw on previous learning to work it out and find solutions independently. We want every child to develop a sound understanding of Maths, equipping them with the skills of calculation, reasoning and problem solving that they need in life beyond school.