Numeracy Support

Description

The Year 8 Numeracy Support Program serves as a targeted intervention that allows students the opportunity to achieve minimum standards in mathematics. Students work in a small class (maximum 15 students) where there is an emphasis on improving their mathematical skills. This is timetabled at the same time as Year 8 Mathematics, so students do Numeracy Support instead of Mathematics, with the aim of reintegrating students back into the standard Year 8 mathematics class where possible. The Year 8 Numeracy Support course focuses on improving students’ numeracy skills as well as developing their use of fractions, decimals and percentages, and algebra. They then apply these skills to practical situations relating to Measurement, Statistics, and Probability. The Numeracy Support Program follows the same format as the standard class, with additional opportunity for more one on one support and hands-on activities.

Student Selection

Year 7 Mathematics Teachers will recommend students to join the Year 8 Numeracy Support Program; This recommendation will be based upon work completed in class throughout the year. Movement from the program back to standard mathematics classes will be reviewed at the end of semester one following teacher recommendations. These reviews will consist of teacher judgement (based on available data and professional judgement), formal assessment and parental consent.

Learning Standards

Content will be drawn from the three strands of the Victorian Curriculum:

• Number and Algebra

• Measurement and Geometry

• Statistics and Probability

Assessment

• Integers

• Statistics

• Fractions and Percentages

• Algebra

• Decimals

• Geometry

• Measurement

• Rates and Ratios

• Equations

• Probability

• Straight line graphs

• Transformation and Congruent