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Mastering Number KS1: Embedding the Impact

Type: Work Group	For: Teachers and Maths Leads
Time: 3 Facet to Face half day sessions and online community	Cost: free of charge

Mastering Number (embedding the impact) is aimed towards schools who have previously engaged in Mastering Number at Reception and KS1 and supports schools to embed the programme in their school. It supports Year 3 teachers to build on pupils’ prior learning by using centrally produced teaching materials to secure pupils’ fluency.

Mastering Number Focus

‘It is essential that pupils have automatic recall of facts within 20 before they learn the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction.’ This project supports year 3 teachers to ensure that pupils develop factual fluency, in such a way that they do not become reliant on counting processes to calculate.

Maths leads will be provided with materials which will help teachers understand and embed the strategies for additive calculations that pupils have been introduced to in KS1. They will include key representations, such as the rekenrek, that support pupils to see the structure of the maths. The Year 3 teacher in participating schools will teach a 10-15 minute fluency session, four days a week, using the teaching materials provided. These sessions are additional to the main maths lesson.

As a result, pupils will develop and secure fluency with additive facts within 20; this will support them with all future calculations, including when applying additive facts to derive multiplication facts

Develop pupils' fluency with and understanding of number to build firm foundations for future success in mathematics learning.

This programme will develop solid number sense, including fluency and flexibility with number facts, which will have a lasting impact on future learning for all children. The programme will also involve high quality professional development for teachers.

Work Group Outcomes

Pupil outcomes

Pupils will:

develop fluency in calculation and a confidence and flexibility with number that exemplifies good number sense
be able to clearly communicate their mathematical ideas
make good progress towards the Early Learning Goals and Year Group Expectations
demonstrate a positive attitude towards maths
demonstrate a willingness to ‘have a go'

Professional learning

Teachers will:

work with colleagues either in school or in a local school to talk together to better understand the resources to enhance teaching
develop skills in working in a professional learning community, reflecting with other colleagues on their own practice, and refining skills through support and challenge within a community
develop a secure understanding of how to build firm mathematical foundations with a stronger subject and pedagogical understanding for EYFS and KS1
secure an understanding of the mathematical expectations of the new Early Years Framework and the meaning of the Early Learning Goals.