Welcome to Maths at Ashton

Maths is a powerful tool for understanding the world, and we aim to bring that curiosity into every single lesson. We encourage all our students to join with the department ethos of Love Life, Love Maths.

You have built a fantastic foundation in primary school and have worked on building fluent calculation skills and good number sense. When you join us in Year 7, we will be building directly on top of this excellent groundwork to take your maths journey even further.

To ensure you hit the ground running in September, we want you to arrive feeling confident, sharp and fluent in these core foundations:

Instant Times Table Recall

Knowing the multiplication (and associated division) facts up to 12 × 12 with quick accuracy.

Decimal Place Value

Understanding the value and size of numbers, using the place value columns to help.

The Four Operations

Being fluent with written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Powers of Ten

Knowing how numbers scale up or down when multiplied by 10, 100 and 100.

What to expect in Year 7

When you start in your first term, you will notice that our early units look a lot like topics you are already familiar with such as Place Value and Calculations. Far from starting from scratch, we will use your primary knowledge and explore these concepts with greater depth.

Once we are secure in these areas, we dive into new areas of maths. Throughout Year 7 you will discover how to calculate with directed number, use the laws of indices, read and write algebra and use standard form to name a few.

Summer Transition Resources

Have a go at looking through the transition booklet linked here. It contains target practice questions covering place value, fractions and core arithmetic.

Get to know your calculator!

In secondary school, you will use a scientific calculator.

Parents, we strongly recommend that students are equipped with the Casio fx-83GT CW+ scientific calculator (or the solar powered version 85GT CW+).

We use this specific version for all interactive classroom demonstrations and our custom curriculum booklets explicitly reference its exact key layouts. Ensuring your child has this exact model will really benefit them.

See if you can figure out how you use your new calculator for basic skills, but also try using it to work out some fractions.

If you have any questions you can get in touch with Mr Fern (Head of Maths) via email sfern@ashtoncsc.com and he will be happy to help.