Mathematics

The Mathematics curriculum aims to ensure that students:

• develop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for everyday life, work and as active and critical citizens in a technological world
• see connections and apply mathematical concepts, skills and processes to pose and solve problems in mathematics and in other disciplines and contexts
• acquire specialist knowledge and skills in mathematics that provide for further study in the discipline
• appreciate mathematics as a discipline – its history, ideas, problems and applications, aesthetics and philosophy.

Teachers work in collaborative teams to plan maths units that cater for the needs of all students. The teachers gather data and evidence to establish what the students know and can do and to check any misunderstandings and gaps in their knowledge. From this evidence, teachers are able to differentiate the lessons to ensure each student is being challenged enough to help them progress to the nest level of learning.