1. Success in Mathematics at Meadlands Primary School

2. Demonstrating fluency, reasoning and problem solving.  White Rose Maths Hub resources tailored to the 2014 maths curriculum.  Provides clear challenge and progression  Following pre-teaching of the core skills, children begin at fluency and then apply their understanding to answer a range of reasoning and problem solving questions.  For the reasoning and problem solving questions children use purple pen to explain their mathematical thinking or prove their answer by doing the inverse.

3. Demonstrating and developing mathematical understanding  All teachers have copies of these reasoning sentence stems and children are encouraged to use the most appropriate in their work.  We have developed the use of ‘purple pen’ within mathematics to encourage pupils to explain their reasoning using mathematical terms.  Challenge is provided by giving a word limit, or key vocabulary that the children must use within their explanation.  Estimation and validation through completing the inverse are also encouraged with the use of purple pen.  The practice has been very successful in KS2 & KS1, and is now implemented throughout the school.

4. Aiding Assessment for Learning with Exit Passes.  Children independently complete differentiated exit passes at the end of a lesson.  Question are taken from Maths Hub, old SATs questions, Testbase and the NCTEM mastery document.  Passes can provide an instant assessment of who needs to recap the learning from the lesson, or who is ready to progress onto the next stage.  Children respond to the challenge, and enjoy demonstrating their new understanding.