Numeracy at Grenville

At Grenville, we believe that Numeracy, as an essential life-skill, is a vital way of  viewing and making sense of the world. 

It is used to analyse, organise, manipulate and communicate information.  It is useful in enabling problems to be solved and predictions to be made, both in real-life and within mathematics itself.  Thinking mathematically involves exploring, generalising, hypothesising, verifying and proving. 

We aim to:
 ·      Enable children to cope with the mathematical aspects of everyday life;
·       Motivate the pupils to work systematically and independently or co-operatively, as the tasks require;
·       Engender confidence on the part of the learner;
·       Encourage a sense of purpose and to develop an ability to think and to persevere with a task;
·       Develop a fascination for and an appreciation of the relationships within mathematics;
·       Provide a wide range of experiences through a variety of teaching methods and learning situations;
·       Encourage the pupils to develop their own methods of working, building on from what they understand;
·       Develop and apply Information and Communication Technology through the study of mathematics;
·       Develop mathematical language.