Maths

At Maldon Primary School,  our maths curriculum aims to nurture a love of maths through mastering number fluency and providing children with skills to become confident at problem solving and reasoning while exploring links to the world around us. We aim for every child to enjoy and succeed in mathematics, regardless of background.

Every class follows the Maths Mastery programme which enables pupils to have a deeper understanding of mathematics. Units of work are mapped out across each year group for the academic year. Each unit consists of a unit overview, lesson resources (including suggestions for adaptation) and a planning guide. Each lesson is broken down into six key elements to allow pupils to gain a richer understanding of that concept: Do now, New learning, Talk task/Let’s Explore, Deeper understanding, Independent task and a Plenary. Pupils are able to develop their communication skills and conceptual understanding through the use of the talk task and a concrete, pictorial, abstract approach in every lesson. 

They will also participate in maths meetings at least four times a week. These are used to secure and consolidate skills already learnt and embed new skills. We aim for these to be fun and engaging sessions full of songs, rhymes and problems for the children to solve. 

Click on the buttons below to see what we will be covering in each term.

At Maldon Primary, we use Times Tables Rockstars to supplement our Arithmetic Curriculum. Times Tables Rockstars is an online, carefully sequenced, programme of daily times tables practise. At the core of Times Tables Rockstars (TTRS), is the belief that practising these key multiplication and division skills little and often has a great impact on fluency. The programme consists of times table games (no longer than 5 minutes each) that encourage quick recall and include all members of the multiplication fact families. All children in years 1 - 6 are provided with a login and encouraged to access games both at home and at school, daily.