Mathematics

Description

Mathematics provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives. The curriculum also provides students, as life-long learners, with the basis on which further study and research in Mathematics and applications in many other fields are built.

Number and algebra, measurement and geometry, statistics and probability are common aspects of most people’s mathematical experience in everyday personal, study and work situations. Equally important are the essential roles that algebra, functions and relations, logic, mathematical structure and working mathematically play in people’s understanding of the natural and human world, and the interaction between them.

The Mathematics curriculum focuses on developing increasingly sophisticated and refined mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, modelling and problem-solving. These capabilities enable students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar situations by employing Mathematics to make informed decisions and solve problems efficiently.

Learning Standards

Number and Algebra

Students will:

• Solve simple problems involving the four operations using a range of strategies including digital technology.

• Estimate to check the reasonableness of answers and approximate answers by rounding.

• Identify and describe factors and multiples.

• Explain plans for simple budgets.

• Order decimals and unit fractions and locate them on a number line.

• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

• Find unknown quantities in number sentences and continue patterns by adding or subtracting fractions and decimals.

Measurement and Geometry

Students will:

• Use appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass.

• Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles and volume, and capacity of rectangular prisms.

• Convert between 12 and 24-hour time.

• Use a grid reference system to locate landmarks.

• Estimate angles, and use protractors and digital technology to construct and measure angles.

• Connect three-dimensional objects with their two-dimensional representations.

• Describe transformations of two-dimensional shapes and identify line and rotational symmetry.

Statistics and Probability

Students will:

• Pose questions to gather data and construct various displays appropriate for the data, with and without the use of digital technology.

• Compare and interpret different data sets.

• List outcomes of chance experiments with equally likely outcomes and assign probabilities as a number from 0 to 1.

Assessment

• Concept development, understanding and mastery

• Informal and formal

(Information is taken from the Victorian Curriculum website)