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At Excelsior Academy we have a seamless 5-year maths curriculum with the following objectives

To equip pupils with the maths and numeracy skills they will need as adults.
To develop pupils’ confidence and encourage a positive attitude towards mathematics.
To highlight the importance of mathematics in their own lives and to society.
To prepare students with problem solving skills for future learning.
To provide a strong mathematical foundation for students who wish to go on to study mathematics at a higher-level post-16

Aims of the Maths curriculum

By the time pupils leave they should be able;

To develop knowledge, skills and understanding of mathematical methods and concepts in number, algebra, ratio, geometry and statistics.
To have the basic numeracy skills they will need as adults.
To have mathematical procedural fluency.
To acquire, select and apply mathematical techniques to solve problems
To reason mathematically, make deductions and inferences and draw conclusions
To understand, interpret and communicate mathematical information in a variety of forms appropriate to the information and context.
To retain the ‘meta-maths’ once they have left school and no longer recall the specifics and formulae: the knowledge and logic that is left behind.