Maths

Smart Maths

What does Maths look like at Furley Park Primary Academy?

Here at Furley Park, we follow the SMART maths curriculum which is an innovative and creative approach to teaching and learning fluency within mathematics. SMART maths uses concrete objects (the cup) which we can then use as a starting point for children to understand all aspects of the National Curriculum. This scheme of work has been carefully planned to incorporate a constant repetition of skills and knowledge from previous learning and follows the same learning system from Foundation Stage all the way up to Year 6

Below is the link to the website and also the documentation to each year groups progressions ladders which show a step-by-step outline of what will be taught in each year group, throughout the year.

https://smartmaths.org.uk/

Please see the Progression Ladder of learning and the SMART Maths Calculation Policy.

Mental Maths

Mental maths is an important part of the curriculum. Having confidence in areas such as multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction can have a positive impact on children’s maths progress and can enable them to work quicker and more efficiently with number. We make sure that the children are constantly working on mental strategies throughout their school life and hopefully they will find new, easier ways to find answers at a much quicker rate.

Times Tables

As part of our working week, we like to challenge the children to move up in their times tables.

Ideally, we would like all children to know their times tables up to 12×12 by the middle of year 4 so that they have a solid basis of knowledge to use during their everyday maths lessons. Our times tables system caters for all abilities and allows children to earn times tables badges, in an array of different colours, along the way – please see below:

Stage 1 – Blue
Blue 1Tested on 2 x tables – multiplication facts
Blue 2Tested on 2 x tables – division facts
Blue 3Tested on 2 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Blue 4Tested on 10 x tables – multiplication facts
Blue 5Tested on 10 x tables – division facts
Blue 6Tested on 10 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Blue 7Tested on 2 and 10 x tables – multiplication facts
Blue 8Tested on 2 and 10 x tables – division facts
Blue 9Tested on 2 and 10 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Stage 2 – Green
Green 1Tested on 5 x tables – multiplication facts
Green 2Tested on 5 x tables – division facts
Green 3Tested on 5 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Green 4Tested on 3 x tables – multiplication facts
Green 5Tested on 3 x tables – division facts
Green 6Tested on 3 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Green 7Tested on 4 x tables – multiplication facts
Green 8Tested on 4 x tables – division facts
Green 9Tested on 4 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Green 10Tested on 5, 3 and 4 x tables – multiplication facts
Green 11Tested on 5, 3 and 4 x tables – division facts
Green 12Tested on 5, 3 and 4 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Stage 3 – Orange
Orange 1Tested on 6 x tables – multiplication facts
Orange 2Tested on 6 x tables – division facts
Orange 3Tested on 6 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Orange 4Tested on 8 x tables – multiplication facts
Orange 5Tested on 8 x tables – division facts
Orange 6Tested on 8 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Orange 7Tested on 11 x tables – multiplication facts
Orange 8Tested on 11 x tables – division facts
Orange 9Tested on 11 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Orange 10Tested on 9 x tables – multiplication facts
Orange 11Tested on 9 x tables – division facts
Orange 12Tested on 9 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Orange 13Tested on 6, 8, 11 and 9 x tables – multiplication facts
Orange 14Tested on 6, 8, 11 and 9 x tables – division facts
Orange 15Tested on 6, 8, 11 and 9 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Stage 4 – Yellow
Yellow 1Tested on 7 x tables – multiplication facts
Yellow 2Tested on 7 x tables – division facts
Yellow 3Tested on 7 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Yellow 4Tested on 12 x tables – multiplication facts
Yellow 5Tested on 12 x tables – division facts
Yellow 6Tested on 12 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Yellow 7Tested on 7 and 12 x tables – multiplication facts
Yellow 8Tested on 7 and 12 x tables – division facts
Yellow 9Tested on 7 and 12 x tables – multiplication and division facts
Stage 5 – Red
Red 1Mixed multiplication – 5 minutes
Red 2Mixed division – 5 minutes
Red 3Mixed multiplication – 4 minutes
Red 4Mixed division – 4 minutes
Red 5Mixed multiplication – 3 minutes
Red 6Mixed division – 3 minutes
Red 7Complete Mixed A
Red 8Complete Mixed B
Red 9Complete Mixed C
Red 10Complete Mixed D
Stage 6 – Purple
Purple 1Square Numbers
Purple 2Square Roots
Purple 3Square numbers mixed
Purple 4Converting length (x 10, 100 and 1000)
Purple 5Converting length (÷ 10, 100 and 1000)
Purple 6Converting length (mixture of purple 4 and 5)
Purple 7Converting mass (x 10, 100 and 1000)
Purple 8Converting mass (÷ 10, 100 and 1000)
Purple 9Converting mass (mixture of purple 7 and 8)
Purple 10Converting volume (x 10, 100 and 1000)
Purple 11Converting volume (÷ 10, 100 and 1000)
Purple 12Converting volume (mixture of purple 10 and 11)
Purple 13Large multiplication facts – multiplication (e.g. 300 x 4)
Purple 14Large multiplication facts – division (e.g. 1200 ÷ 4)
Purple 15Large multiplication facts – mixed (mixture of purple 13 and 14)

Times Tables Rock Stars

To further support the development of times tables for our pupils, the school use Times Tables Rock Stars. This allows for the children to have access to fun times tables games online at school and at home. The link to the website is below:

https://ttrockstars.com/

Active Maths

Here at Furley Park, we try to make our maths lessons as active and memorable as possible. Our teachers are specialists at including activities which get all children involved and engaged in their learning. We use cards, dice, flippy counters and a whole host of other resources during our maths lessons which help with the children’s fluency of number.

We also use resources from Teach Active: Active Maths. This provides us with maths activities which can be used in all year groups, inside the classroom or outdoors. We also have our own mascot; Motty!

Motty is part of our assemblies and encourages us to challenge ourselves with our maths work.

When your class is chosen to have Motty for the week, this means that you and your class need to do some active maths in the classroom, on the playground or even on our school field!