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Curriculum and
National Numeracy
Strategy
The code breaking workshops are designed to promote
children’s reasoning
and problem solving skills, and
encourage logical and systemic
approaches
to tackling problems.
KS2:
Code breaking and making
covers the following areas of the National
Curriculum:
1) Problem
Solving
b) break down a more complex problem or calculation
into simpler steps before attempting a solution; identify
the information needed to carry
out the
tasks
d) find different ways of approaching a problem in order
to overcome any
difficulties
f) organise work and refine ways of
recording
h) present and interpret solutions in the context of the
problem
2) Number Patterns and
sequences
b) recognise and describe number
patterns
3) Number operations and the relationships
between
them
a) choose suitable number operations to solve a given problem,
and recognise similar problems to which they
apply
4)
a) choose, use and combine any of the four number
operations
to
solve word problems involving numbers in ‘real
life’
b) choose and use an appropriate way to calculate and
explain
their
methods and
reasoning
c) estimate answers by approximating and checking that
their
results are reasonable in the context of the of the
problem
Code breaking and making also
satisfies the following areas of the National Numeracy
Strategy
Problem
solving: Pupils
should be taught to solve
mathematical
problems
or puzzles, recognise and explain patterns
and
relationships, generalise and
predict. Suggest
extensions
by asking “What
if…?”
Data
Handling:
Solve a problem by collecting, organising,
representing, extracting and interpreting data from
tables
graphs
and charts
KS3:
Code
breaking and making covers the following areas of the
National Curriculum:
1) Problem solving
a) explore connections in mathematics to develop flexible
approaches to increasingly demanding problems; select
appropriate strategies to
use for numerical or algebraic
problems
b) break down a complex calculation into simpler steps
before
attempting to
solve it.
Communicating
f) represent problems and solutions in algebraic or graphical
forms;
move from one form of representation to another to get
different
perspectives on the problem; present and interpret
solutions in
the context of the original problem
Reasoning
j) show step by step deduction in solving a problem; explain
and
justify how they
arrived at a conclusion
4) Solving numerical
problems
b) select appropriate operations, methods and strategies
to
solve number problems, including trial and
improvement where
a more efficient method to find the solution is not
obvious
d) give solutions in the context of the problem to an
appropriate
degree of accuracy, recognising limitations on the
accuracy
of
data and
measurements.
Code breaking and making also
satisfies the following areas of the Yr 7 National
Numeracy Strategy framework:
Problem
Solving:
2-35) Applying mathematics and solving
problems
2-25) Solve word problems and investigate in a range of
contexts
26-7) Identify the necessary information to solve a
problem
28-9)
Break a complex calculation into simpler steps, choosing
and using appropriate and efficient operations, methods
and
resources, including
ICT
30-1) Present and interpret solutions in the context of
the
original
problem; explain
and justify methods and conclusions, orally
and in
writing
32-5) Suggest extensions to problems by asking 'What
if...?';
begin
to generalise and to understand the
significance
of
a counter-example.
Handling
Data:
248-55)
Specifying a problem, planning and collecting
data
248-9) Given a problem that can be
addressed by
statistical
methods,
suggest possible
answers
268-75) Interpreting and discussing
results
268-71)
Interpret diagrams and graphs (including pie
charts),
and draw simple conclusions based on the shape
of graphs and simple
statistics for a single
distribution.
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