Mathematics
Mathematics provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives.
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The students develop mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, modelling and problem-solving, as well as gain an understanding of the relationship that Mathematics has with the other learning areas of the curriculum.
The Mathematics Curriculum covers: Number, Measurement and Geometry and Statistics and Probability.
Equally important are the essential roles of algebra, functions and relations, logic, mathematical structure and working mathematically.
Aims:
The Mathematics curriculum aims to ensure that students:
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develop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for everyday life, work and as active and critical citizens in a technological world
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see connections and apply mathematical concepts, skills and processes to pose and solve problems in mathematics and in other disciplines and contexts
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acquire specialist knowledge and skills in mathematics that provide for further study in the discipline
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appreciate mathematics as a discipline – its history, ideas, problems and applications, aesthetics and philosophy.
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