Numeracy
Poowong Consolidated School
Learn Numeracy at Poowong Consolidated School
Mathematics
Mathematics is an essential area of learning in our curriculum. It is vitally important that our students develop mathematical skills to function effectively in society. Becoming confident and competent with mathematics will enable our students at Poowong Consolidated School to be able to reason, solve problems, demonstrate understandings, and see the relevance of mathematics in everyday life.
The mathematics program at PCS allows all students to have genuine access to high quality learning in mathematics. The program will build on students’ interests and experiences, allowing students to make meaningful connections to real life situations and enable them to see a purpose for all concepts and skills being taught. Students will be encouraged to analyse, compare, explain, reason, justify, estimate, and synthesise mathematical problems, which will assist them in developing the ability to choose the most effective approach to solving problems.
Through learning mathematics at Poowong Consolidated School, students will:
- Develop confidence, independence, and a positive attitude towards mathematics.
- Develop and demonstrate useful and relevant mathematical skills.
- Solve mathematical problems using a range of strategies.
- Recognise mathematical connections and be able to apply mathematical concepts, skills, and processes in posing and solving mathematical problems.
- Be confident in one’s personal knowledge of mathematics, to feel able to both apply it, and to acquire new knowledge and skills when needed.
- To communicate and reason mathematically and see the relevance of mathematics in everyday life.
- Develop the ability and willingness to be a risk taker with their learning and approach new concepts with a growth mindset.
- Make connections between their mathematical learning in the classroom and applications of their mathematical skills in real life, everyday situations.
We deliver a sequential, inter-connected mathematics program based on the outcomes from the Victorian Curriculum. Mathematics as a subject is organised into three content strands, along with four embedded proficiency strands.
These strands describe the concepts being taught and learnt and provide the basis for our mathematics curriculum.
- Number and Algebra
- Measurement and Geometry
- Statistics and Probability
The proficiencies describe how the concepts are explored and skills are developed – the thinking and the doing
- Understanding
- Fluency
- Reasoning
- Problem Solving
Poowong Consolidated School students set learning goals in collaboration with their teachers to achieve learning targets based on what they already know, and what they understand they need to achieve. We believe that students are motivated to learn when they know their own abilities and understand the next steps to success.
