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Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Believe to Achieve! "Roots will grow down into God's love and keep us strong" EPH 3:17

Maths

Subject Leader Mrs A Walch & Mr C Foster
Contact Details uppersite@brinkworthearldanbys.wilts.sch.uk for the attention of the Maths Subject Leader
Mission Sentence At Brinkworth Earl Danby's School we believe that Maths "is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding”, (William Paul Thurston).  We believe maths is vital for building children's ability to function in a numerate world. 
Inspiring Quotes
  • Mathematicians aren’t people who find Maths easy. They are people who enjoy the challenge. (Matt Parker)
  • Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. (Shakuntala Devi)
  •  In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. (Georg Cantor)
  • The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. (Paul Halmos)

Curriculum Overview

 

Term One

Term Two

Term Three

Term Four

Term Five

Term Six

YR

Counting 5

Counting 6

Counting 7

Counting 8

Counting 9

Counting 10

Composition and calculating: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

Compare numbers

Composition and calculating: 7 and 8

Composition and calculating: 9 and 10

Equal groups

Distributing equally

Securing and using number facts

Revisiting and securing

Y1

Number and place value to at least 20

Geometry: properties of shapes

Addition and subtraction

Number and place value up to 100

Addition and subtraction: facts of 7-10

Properties of shapes

Addition and subtraction: facts of 11-16

Measurement: length

Addition and subtraction: facts of 17-20

Fractions

Geometry: position and direction

Addition and subtraction
Measurement: time

Multiplication and division

Measurement: money

Measurement: mass and capacity

Y2

Number and place value

Geometry: properties of shapes

Addition

Subtraction

Geometry: properties of shapes

Multiplication and division

Geometry: position and direction

Multiplication tables

Measurement: length and mass

Fractions

Measurement: time

Measurement: money

Statistics

Measurement: capacity and temperature

Secure in: place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division

Y3

Number and place value

Geometry: properties of shapes

Multiplication tables

Mental methods for addition and subtraction

Fractions

Written methods for addition and subtraction

Multiplication and division

Measurement: money

Fractions: calculating

Measurement: time

Measurement: length, mass and capacity

Geometry: properties of shapes (angles)

Statistics

Y4

Number and place value

Geometry: properties of shapes

Multiplication and division including times tables

Mental methods for addition and subtraction

Multiplcation tables

Written methods for addition and subtraction

Multiplcation and division

Geometry: properties of shapes (angles)

Decimals

Fractions

 

Decimal: addition and subtraction

Measurement: time and converting units

Measurement: perimeter and area

Position and direction

Statistics

Y5

Number and place value

Decimals

Geometry: properties of shapes

Addition and subtraction

Multiplication and division: powers of 10, properties of number

Multiplication and division: written methods

Position and direction

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Measurement: length, mass and capacity

Fractions: calculating

Measurement: area and volume

Geometry: properties of shapes

Measurement: time

Statistics

Y6

Number and place value

Decimals

Multiplication and division

Geometry: position and direction

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Geometry: properties of shapes (angles)

Geometry: properties of shapes

The four operations

Fractions: calculating

Ration and proportion

Measurement: converting units

Measurement: area and volume

Algebra

Statistics

Targeted revision and SATs

Secure in: fractions, decimals and percentages, algebra, ration and proportion

Some famous mathematicians we are inspired by... 

Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935)

 

 

Katherine Johnson (1918 - 2020)

 

 

Shakuntala Devi (1929 - 2013)

 

Terence Tao (b. 1975)

 

 

 

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)