Mathematics

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