At Mears Ashby CE Primary School we believe that children learn best in maths when concepts are broken down in to small, manageable steps. We teach using a method that first uses concrete resources to demonstrate a concept, followed by pictorial representations and finally in a more abstract way (known as the CPA approach).  The school use the White Rose Maths Hub Scheme of Work in order to achieve this. 

Note that our Calculation Policies set out for each year group the concrete, pictoral and abstract methods we teach for each of the four calculations: