Mathematics at Whittington Primary School provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives.

Maths at Whittington Primary focuses on open ended, real world problem solving that caters to the individual learning needs of all students. Our guaranteed and viable Mathematics curriculum focuses on developing increasingly sophisticated and refined mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, modelling and problem-solving. These capabilities enable students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar situations by employing mathematics to make informed decisions and solve problems efficiently.

The Mathematics curriculum at Whittington Primary School aims to ensure that students:

· develop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for everyday life, work and as active and critical citizens in a technological world

· see connections and apply mathematical concepts, skills and processes to pose and solve problems in mathematics and in other disciplines and contexts

· acquire specialist knowledge and skills in mathematics that provide for further study in the discipline

· appreciate mathematics as a discipline – its history, ideas, problems and applications, aesthetics and philosophy.