Maths
Mathematics is a creative and highly inter-connected discipline that has been developed over centuries, providing the solution to some of history’s most intriguing problems. It is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. A high-quality mathematics education therefore provides a foundation for understanding the world, the ability to reason mathematically, an appreciation of the beauty and power of mathematics, and a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about the subject.
Our Aim
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.
Useful Documents
BCI-Progression-document-2024.pdf
Knowledge Organisers
Supporting Times Tables
In either paper form or online, Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice.
Each week concentrates on a different times table, with a recommended consolidation week for rehearsing the tables that have recently been practised every third week or so.
This format has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 8 years in over 16,000 schools – both primary and secondary – worldwide.
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BCI Maths Youtube Videos
Useful websites
We believe every child can do maths. Our aim is to develop highly effective teachers of maths through excellent FREE maths teaching resources.
Learning maths is fun with this range of free educational games for Key Stag
We’ve got educational games galore: Sharpen math skills with Addition Pizza Party, learn letters with Alphabet Cloud Catcher, and transform study time into an adventure every day!
Books to inspire maths
Spinderella: A spider’s quest to learn about numbers in order to organise a football team creates great opportunities to discuss multiplication and division, and gives a really positive message about the power of mathematics.
One is a Snail: Ten is a Crab. A really enjoyable and clever mathematical story book that gets children thinking about the concept of multiplication and scaling by comparing feet.
THE QUEEN’S KNICKERS: A hilarious mathematical story book which focuses on pattern and quantity.
A squash and a Squeeze: A fun problem solving book which focuses on space and measures, and the concept of making things bigger and smaller. Discuss what changed (the number of occupants) and stayed the same at each point in the story (the size of the ho
Careers in Maths
