At St Brendan’s, we view Mathematics as an essential life skill to be mastered by all students. Students require competency in the areas of Number, Algebra, Geometry, Data Representation and Analysis and Problem Solving.
The Victorian 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.
We endeavour to do this through:
the explicit teaching of mathematics knowledge and skills
the use of formal and informal assessment
the analysis of student data
the use of intervention where necessary