Maths

Teaching for mastery

At Kingmoor Junior School we base our maths teaching on White Rose which uses a mastery approach to maths teaching. This is a research-driven teaching and learning method that meets the goals of the National Curriculum.

What does it mean in practice? In summary, a mastery approach…

Puts numbers first: Schemes have number at their heart, because we believe confidence with numbers is the first step to competency in the curriculum as a whole.
Puts depth before breadth: we reinforce knowledge again and again.
Encourages collaboration: children can progress through the schemes as a group, supporting each other as they learn.
Focuses on fluency, reasoning and problem solving: it gives children the skills they need to become competent mathematicians.

Trusted maths teaching resources

White Rose primary maths resources are designed to instil a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts using a full range of fun, inspiring classroom activities.

Maths resources include schemes of learning and a wide variety of supporting material, including high quality maths worksheets, fully adaptable teaching slides, video lessons and more. Lots of these are completely free of charge.

To help monitor understanding and progress throughout the year, we use end of block and end of term assessments.

The resources cover all the essential topics in key stage 2. They include times tables, the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), basic decimals and fractions, percentages, number system use and more.

Concrete Pictorial Abstract

At the heart of our mastery approach is the Concrete Pictorial Abstract (CPA) approach. Research shows that when children are introduced to a new concept, working with concrete physical resources and pictorial representations leads to a better understanding of abstract concepts. We use CPA throughout our schemes of learning.