Maths
Curriculum Intent
Our curriculum intent in Mathematics is to understand the purpose beyond the classroom through the use of engaging and real life problem solving questions and being able to recognise the importance of Mathematics in life and within society. We focus on understanding what students already know and build on their prior knowledge, students focus on understanding the essentials, before extending their learning and going on to achieve excellence.
Our curriculum is designed to give our students the best opportunities in both employment and personal growth by focusing on fluency and reasoning and problem solving. We place a real emphasis on teaching Mathematics from a first principle to allow students to gain a deeper understanding. Most career options require the ability to think logically and quantitatively in order to analyse and solve problems. Throughout our curriculum we place a real emphasis on incorporating these skills into our daily lessons, and ensuring students are assessed on these skills where appropriate allowing students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses.
We aim to inspire students to become deep, independent and analytical learners which will enable them to have the resilience to solve everyday problems. Mathematics is critical in Science, Technology and Engineering and necessary for the advancement of our future generations. At Grace Academy Coventry we want our students to develop an appreciation of the beauty of Mathematics as well as a sense of enjoyment and curiosity for the subject.
This term, we are studying…
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Year |
Topic(s) |
Why this? Why now? |
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Year 7 |
How do we use angles in diagrams and problems? How can probability & statistics be useful in real life?
Where are sequences seen in real life?
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Angles will be introduced to year 7 in order for them to apply angle rules and facts to find missing angles.
Probability and statistics play a key role in many jobs, and are used by many members of society to represent information.
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Year 8 |
How do we use angles in diagrams and problems? How can probability & statistics be useful in real life?
Where are sequences seen in real life?
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Angles will be introduced to year 7 in order for them to apply angle rules and facts to find missing angles.
Probability and statistics play a key role in many jobs, and are used by many members of society to represent information.
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Year 9 |
How do we use angles in diagrams and problems? How can probability & statistics be useful in real life?
Where are sequences seen in real life?
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Angles will be introduced to year 7 in order for them to apply angle rules and facts to find missing angles.
Probability and statistics play a key role in many jobs, and are used by many members of society to represent information.
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Year 10 |
How can Probability and Statistics be useful in real life?
How do we use Ratio and Proportion in real life?
How can we use represent equations using graphs? |
Students will continue to investigate how probability can be represented, as well as studying further statistical diagrams and how they can be drawn and interpreted for real life situations. Ratio and proportion teach students skills for sharing and dividing. These are skills that are essential for many real-life situations, cooking and recipes is one of those areas.
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Year 11 |
Exam preparation |
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Year 12 |
Data Collection |
This term is spent looking at statistics and the use of statistics in the real world. We will look at collecting data and testing to check validity of hypothesis. Links to Psychology. |
Qualification information:
GCSE Foundation: https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/mathematics-j560-from-2015/
GCSE Higher: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/mathematics-2015.html
Curriculum content:
Attached are the curriculum maps which outline the sequence we use in order to structure our learning. If you would like to support your child's learning, we have attached links to Oak National Academy who provide lessons, activities and resources for commonly taught topics. Please use the curriculum map for this subject before visiting:
https://teachers.thenational.academy/subjects/maths/key-stages/key-stage-3
https://teachers.thenational.academy/subjects/maths/key-stages/key-stage-4