Maths Methods at St Joseph's
Welcome to Maths Methods at St. Joseph's.
All written methods are based on mental strategies. Each of the four operations builds on mental skills, which provide the foundation for jottings and informal written methods of recording. It is important that these skills are taught, practised and reviewed constantly because it is these skills which lead on to the learning of more formal written methods of calculation.
An overview of the methods taught at St. Joseph's can be found in our calculation policies.
Follow the links for each year group to get further support with the methods being taught to your child.
National Curriculum Aims for Maths
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.