Mathematics
ACHIEVEMENTS
KARLEIGH NICHOLLS – HEAD OF MATHEMATICS
ICAS awards Merit: Yr 7 – Lily Martin Yr 8 – Amelia Bryant-Peterson Credit: Yr 7 - Rhea Desai, Alexandra Edwards, Eva Lancaster, Claire Murphy, Serah Vimal, Emily Wade Yr 8 - Lara Ecroyd, Lucy Kilner Yr 9 - Ankita Sajjan Yr 10 – Julia Rathie, Isabelle Watts Distinction: Yr 8 – Chanudi Dissanayake, Ariel Qiu Yr 10 – Lilly Biernoff
When students make a mistake in math, their brain confidence to voice more queries in class and grows, synapses fire, and connections are made. further engage with content.’ Dr Jo Boaler Continuing to build safe environments for our In order to make mistakes, students need to feel students will remain a focus for our Department. comfortable in their learning environment. In our Mathematics classrooms this is a focus for our In the last week of Term 4 the Mathematics Department, ensuring the girls feel comfortable Department held a Maths Exploration Day. expressing their ideas and solutions in group and This was an opportunity for the Year 7 cohort individual situations. When students were asked to explore Mathematics through a range of different activities. The girls used logical thinking how they feel in their Mathematics classroom, to code a Rover, explored number patterns and they responded as follows: card games, used algorithms to find their ideal friend, based on values, and engaged with paper ‘In my math class I feel free to explore new concepts in a judgement-free zone with likeplanes to evaluate specific criteria relevant to our Senior Assessment. The girls had an minded peers. I’m not afraid to admit I don’t enjoyable morning and we hope to run a similar understand something.’ event next year. ‘The support within the classroom environment significantly altered how I learned and practised Maths this year. I feel the class size helped develop a stronger connection between the students and the teacher; and, I feel, this relationship has helped me to develop the
QAMT 7/8 Mathematics Quiz We had three teams participate and the top team progressed to the Regional Final, where our team placed 2nd overall. Well done to Rhea Desai, Ariel Qui and Lilli Hamilton on placing second in the region.
28+47+23+2 36+48+16 29+42+29 5+56+39 31+32+31+6 50+50 Academic Results
28% 47%
23%
2%
36% 48%
Year 7
16%
29% 42% 29%
Year 8
31%
5% 56% 39%
Year 9 Essential Mathematics
Year 9 General Mathematics
32%
31%
6%
50% 50%
Year 9 Mathematical Methods
Year 10 Essential Mathematics
15+44+27+10+4 35+49+16 47+53 20+51+25+4 28+48+17+7 30+40+20+10 38+46+12+4 304624 195031 5842 15%
44%
27% 10%
Year 10 General Mathematics
4%
35%
49% 16%
47% 53%
Year 10 Mathematical Methods
Year 11 Essential Mathematics
20%
51% 25% 4%
Year 11 General Mathematics
28%
48%
17%
Year 11 Mathematical Methods
A
38%
46%
12% 4%
Year 12 Essential Mathematics
30%
46%
24%
Year 12 General Mathematics
19%
50%
31%
Year 12 Mathematics Methods
7%
30% 40% 20% 10%
Year 11 Specialist Methods
B
C
D
58% 42%
Year 12 Specialist Mathematics
40
