Mastery Approach
Variation helps Visualisation
As soon as the children enter school, we present children with concepts in a variety of different ways in order to help them visualise them:
E.g. The number 2 can be represented in different ways:
Subitising
At St. Luke's, we encourage the children to use subitising. This term was coined by the theorist Piaget and defined the ability to instantaneously recognise the number of objects in a small group without the need to count them.
Manipulatives we use to help build maths concepts:
Models to help build mathematical concepts: