Latest Maths News

Times Tables Rockstars 16.6.25

The children who have demonstrated the most effort in their Times Tables Rockstars were awarded in assembly today! Well done!

Latest Maths News

Times Table Rockstars 9.6.25

This week we celebrated the fastest Rockstar in each class!

Maths at Marsh Green

At Marsh Green, we teach Maths using the Power Maths scheme, which is a whole-class, textbook-based mastery resource. It is based on a small-steps approach, which means the concepts are broken down so the children can acquire a deep, long-term, secure and adaptable understanding. It has been designed to support and challenge all pupils, and is built on the belief that EVERYONE can learn maths successfully, by building number fluency, confidence and understanding, step by step. By taking a Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (C-P-A) approach, Power Maths allows children to tackle concepts in a tangible and accessible way. All ideas are built on previous knowledge and pupils have lots of opportunity to recognise relationships between topics.

1. Power Up- each lesson begins with a Power Up activity which supports fluency in key number facts and reinforces key skills such as times-tables, number bonds and working with place value. The whole-class approach depends on fluency, so the Power Up is a powerful and essential activity.
2. Discover- the class are given a problem to solve, often a real-life example, sometimes a puzzle or a game to explore, which introduces the new learning. These are engaging and fun, and designed to get all children thinking. It is usually completed in pairs with concrete materials.
3. Share- the class shares their ideas and compares different ways to solve the problem, explaining their reasoning with hands-on resources and drawings to make their ideas clear. Children are able to develop their understanding of the concept with input from the teacher.
4. Thinking Together- the next part of the lesson is a journey through the concept, digging deeper and deeper so that each child builds on secure foundations while being challenged to apply their understanding in different ways and with increasing independence. It follows the ‘I do, we do, you do’ structure, which gives the children opportunities to think together in their groups and also work independently.
5. Practice- now children practice individually or in small groups, rehearsing and developing their skills to build fluency, understanding of the concept and confidence. The children are encouraged to use concrete materials and mathematical representations and structures to support their understanding as necessary.
6. Reflect- finally, children are prompted to reflect on and record their learning from each session and show how they have grasped the concept explored in the lesson.

Key points:

• We believe that every child can achieve.
• Small steps build a solid foundation of deep mathematical understanding.
• We builds pupils’ mathematical fluency without the need for rote learning.
• New concepts are introduced using the Concrete-Pictorial- Abstract (CPA) approach
• Pupils learn to think mathematically to find patterns, connections and relationships between different concepts.

Please find below our calculation policies which follow the Power Maths scheme.

We also use Times Tables Rockstars as a tool to help pupils develop fluency in multiplication tables in school and at home.

White Rose Maths is an additional maths resource which allows children to practice and revise concepts that have been taught in Power Maths Lessons.

Power Maths Yearly Overviews

Track what your child is doing throughout the year in Maths with our yearly overviews.

Additional Curriculum Resources