Numeracy Vision
Our vision is to provide our pupils with a Numeracy skills which will produce individuals who are literate, creative, independent, inquisitive, enquiring and confident.
We are able to achieve this through our provision of a stimulating environment, equipped with adequate resources to enable pupils develop their mathematical skills to their fullest potential.
In Meadow Hall, the teaching of Numeracy is done according to the National Numeracy Strategy Framework of teaching Mathematics. The subject is expected to be taught under the following strands:
- Numbers
- Geometry and Measures
- Handling Data
Specific Aims
Our pupils should:
- Have a sense of the size of a number and where it fits into the number system
- Know by heart number facts such as number bonds, multiplication tables, doubles and halves
- Use what they know by heart to figure out numbers mentally
- Calculate accurately and efficiently, both mentally and in writing and also draw on a range of calculation strategies
- Recognise when it is appropriate to use a calculator and do so effectively
- Make sense of number problems, including non-routine problems, and recognise the operations needed to solve them
- Explain their methods and reasoning using correct mathematical terms
- Judge whether their answers are reasonable and have strategies for checking them where necessary
- Suggest suitable units for measuring and make sensible estimates of measurements
- Explain and make predictions from the numbers in graphs, diagrams, charts and tables
- Develop spatial awareness and an understanding of the properties of 2D and 3D shapes