Departmental Intent:
The national and school 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
The Mathematics curriculum overview can be found here:
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Golden Threads are the key themes, values and skills that run throughout the curriculum across all year groups. In our school, these threads reflect our Catholic ethos and Catholic Social Teaching, supporting pupils’ academic development while encouraging them to make links between their learning, the wider world and their responsibilities as compassionate and thoughtful citizens.
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The KS4 course specification for Mathematics can be found here: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/mathematics-2015.html
Bookflix is our reading incentive and is linked to rewards through achievement points and other prizes when children read specific numbers of books.
Bookflix displays are in every classroom, which gives teachers the opportunity to recommend books to read around each subject. Children should see which books are trending and newly added, just like the home screen on Netflix!
Here is the list of the current Bookflix books for the department:
The Number Devil, A Mathematical Adventure Hans Magnus Enzenberger
The Code Book Simon Singh
Alex’s Adventures in Numbers Alex Bellos
Alex Through The Looking Glass Alex Bellos
Thinking in Numbers Daniel Tammet
Crypto Steven Levy
Chaos James Gleik
How Not To Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg
