The Teaching of Maths At Birdsedge First School we follow the White Rose materials for a Mastery approach to maths. However, to ensure consolidation and opportunities for spaced retrieval, whole school overviews have been created to ensure pupils have the opportunity to recall and rehearse prior learning over the year. Like all lessons, the teaching of Maths follows our Birdsedge Teaching Principles to ensure quality first teaching for all children in all classes.
Key Component Fluency
What does this mean? Practising Core Skills
Teaching
Learning a concept or skill
Reasoning
Problem Solving
Assessment and Feedback
Begin with concrete materials, model how you draw this and link to the abstract (the numbers and symbols. The bridge between fluency and problem solving – being able to apply logical thinking to a question or problem Applying the skill or concept to a problem
Verbal feedback in a lesson Personalised feedback in books
What does this look like in class? Recap, rehearse and retrieve tasks as children enter the lesson Quick Mental and Oral Warm Ups Clear, direct main teaching Clear and progressive modelling that includes varied examples Clear expectations of presentation in books
Metacognition and ‘think aloud’ Rich mathematical talk modelled and encouraged Teacher questioning Speaking in full number sentences Supported whole class and group tasks first Learning environment, models and scaffolds available to support success Opportunity to apply skill independently to practise Teacher questioning Planned whole class tasks Marking in books Feeding into intervention either within the lesson or for the next lesson