Making Maths Real
Our numeracy program provides engaging learning experiences that assist students to develop skills in:
A key element of the numeracy program is the development and implementation of purposeful and effective learning experiences.
These experiences are at the point of need for each student and are linked to ‘real life’ situations. They involve hands on tasks with concrete materials. Students regularly participate in small group workshops with teachers. This allows teachers to provide explicit instruction and to extend each student’s skills.
Prep to Grade 2
These levels lay the foundation for learning mathematics. Students at this level can access powerful mathematical ideas relevant to their current lives and learn the language of mathematics, which is vital to future progression.
Children have the opportunity to access mathematical ideas by developing a sense of number, order, sequence and pattern; by understanding quantities and their representations; by learning about attributes of objects and collections, position, movement and direction, and by developing an awareness of the collection, presentation and variation of data and a capacity to make predictions about chance events.
Understanding and experiencing these concepts in the early levels provides a foundation for algebraic, statistical and numerical thinking, that will develop in subsequent levels. These foundations also enable children to pose basic mathematical questions about their world, to identify simple strategies to investigate solutions, and to strengthen their reasoning to solve personally meaningful problems.
Grade 3–6
These levels emphasise the importance of students studying coherent, meaningful and purposeful mathematics that is relevant to their lives. Students still require active experiences that allow them to construct key mathematical ideas, but also gradually move to using models, pictures and symbols to represent these ideas.
The curriculum develops key understandings by extending the number, measurement, geometric and statistical learning from the early levels; by building foundations for future studies through an emphasis on patterns that lead to generalisations; by describing relationships from data collected and represented; by making predictions; and by introducing topics that represent a key challenge in these levels, such as fractions and decimals.
In these levels of schooling, it is particularly important for students to develop a deep understanding of whole numbers to build reasoning in fractions and decimals and to develop a conceptual understanding of place value. These concepts allow students to develop proportional reasoning and flexibility with number through mental computation skills, and to extend their number sense and statistical fluency.
Maths Workshop Model.
The workshop models detail how we teach Reading and Writing for an hour each day. By implementing a consistent approach across the school, we are focused on improving student outcomes in Reading and Writing. The modules include use of the High Impact Teaching Strategies, which are instructional practices to increase student learning. The Models include a clear Learning Intention (so students know what they are learning and why), Success Criteria (so students know how to successfully complete tasks), Quality Tasks (to engage, inspire and challenge students) and Feedback (allowing students to reflect on their efforts to achieve their learning goals).
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