Maths

Our children's vision for mathematics

Our children’s responses to the following questions have been used to create a piece of word art. This helps us ensure that the teaching and learning of mathematics at St Bede's is successful.

How important is maths in your lives?
If you could choose one word to describe maths, what would it be?
What do you want from your maths lesson?

Across school we follow the White Rose scheme of work to enable clear well sequenced units of work, which involve fluency, problem solving and reasoning. We also then use the Master the Curriculum to support the delivery of the White Rose. We believe that this scheme provides fun, engaging and teacher-approved resources that perfectly align with the White Rose Maths framework and the maths mastery approach.

At St Bede’s we also use the NCETM resources and lesson plans to support planning and resourcing of certain concepts to ensure we deliver quality first teaching.

Mathematics Overview

At St Bede's we recognise the value of making a coherent journey through the national curriculum and each year group follows a plan where small, cumulative steps build a solid foundation of deep mathematical understanding. Click below to view each individual year group’s long term planning.

Support Learning at Home

Early Years

Key stage 1

Key Stage 2

Maths apps for Ipad

MeteorMath - Mental maths calculations. Choose the operation or ‘survival’ mode with all 4. Gets progressively more difficult but cannot set difficulty at the start. Free app.
King of Maths - Mental maths calculations. Create a character and log in to progress through levels. All 4 operations gets progressively harder. Free initial app (addition and subtraction) then pay for new levels.
Hungry Fish - Feed the fish with pairs of numbers. Select the level of difficulty. Free initial app (addition) then pay for new levels. Pause it to change difficulty level.
Geoboard - A digital version of the ‘traditional’ classroom resource. Great for lines of symmetry, reflections and shape work. Large and small square grids.
Subtraction - Robot themed game for practicing subtraction. Practice or Test modes. Great for number bonds to 10, 20, 50 and 100. Lots of options including multiple choice, range of questions and number of questions in a level.
Tables - As above but multiplication. Lots of options and excellent for targeting the ones they have to practice.
Achieving level 4 mathematics - Questions cover all areas of maths curriculum. Costs £2.99
Fractions - American – ‘Fourths’ not quarters! Good for numerator and denominator, equivalents, improper and mixed numbers, Adding and multiplying. Nice and visual.
Springbird - Basic addition and subtraction. KS1 focussed.
Educreations - Digital whiteboard that records explanations for playback– sounds and writing/images. Great for getting children to explain methods. Takes a short while to get your head around but children find it easy!
mathBingo (green icon) - Great app for up to 4 players practising calculation. Easy to set difficulty.
Math Bingo (orange icon) - Bingo for 1 player. Children love collecting the bugs.
Motion Math - Excellent ‘tilt screen’ app for fractions, decimals and percentages. There are more excellent motion maths games available.