Mathematics
Mathematics teaches us how to make sense of the world around us through development of a young person’s ability to calculate, to reason and to solve problems. Mathematics education should offer pupils challenge to equip them with knowledge, skills and the ability and confidence to use and apply these to meet present and future needs.
Beauchamp Middle School aims to ensure that all pupils, irrespective of gender, race or culture, have access to a range of stimulating problems and activities, following the National Curriculum programmes of study through the National Numeracy Strategy. Teachers deliver the curriculum in different ways to ensure that the preferred learning styles of all young people are regularly catered for whether visual, audio or kinaesthetic. As they move through the school pupil’s mathematical experience should be continuous and progressive producing competent and confident young mathematicians.
Beauchamp Middle School aims in mathematics to:
Promote enjoyment and enthusiasm for mathematics through practical activity, exploration and discussion
Promote confidence and competence with numbers and the number system
Further develop the ability to solve problems through decision making and reasoning in a wide range of contexts
Further develop a practical understanding of the ways in which information is gathered and presented
Explore features of shape and space, and develop measuring skills in a range of contexts
Understand the importance of mathematics and be able to utilise it in everyday life.