Maths

At Rudgwick Primary School, the learning of children and staff is based on the five big ideas of teaching for mastery, as supported by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM). We use these ideas as the basis for our learning, because they prioritise conceptual understanding and are designed to create fluent, flexible, problem solving, reasoning mathematicians. In particular, we focus on representation and structure, including linguistic structure. This emphasis enables children and staff to represent mathematical concepts enactively and iconically, as well as being able to talk the maths using tools such as stem sentences and precise mathematical definitions. These skills will help us to be mathematicians both in and out of the classroom, and we will gain strategies that will serve us well when we use maths in our daily lives now, and in the future. We foster a culture of valuing mistakes, as they are a critically important part of the learning process.