Aims
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematic aims to ensure that students:
- become confident, proficient and effective users and communicators of mathematics, who can investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives, think critically, and make choices as active, engaged, numerate citizens
- develop proficiency with mathematical concepts, skills, procedures and processes, and use them to demonstrate mastery in mathematics as they pose and solve problems, and reason with number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability
- make connections between areas of mathematics and apply mathematics to model situations in various fields and disciplines
- foster a positive disposition towards mathematics, recognising it as an accessible and useful discipline to study
- acquire specialist mathematical knowledge and skills that underpin numeracy development and lead to further study in mathematics and other disciplines.
Structure
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics is presented in year levels from Prep to Year 10.
Content is organised under 6 interrelated strands:
- Number
- Algebra
- Measurement
- Space
- Statistics
- Probability
Further information can be found at the Australian Curriculum website.
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Experiences
Prep
Students develop a sense of shape, size, number, order, sequence, pattern and position in relation to familiar settings.
Year 1 & 2
Students develop number sense as they build their understanding of place value. They are introduced to mathematical symbols and learn different ways to represent numbers. They begin to use mathematical language to communicate and explain mathematical ideas, pose basic mathematical questions, and develop simple strategies to investigate and solve practical problems.
Year 3 & 4
Students further develop their understanding of number, patterns and relationships, measurement and geometry. They represent fractions and decimals using concrete materials as they begin to conduct statistical investigations and repeated chance experiments.
Year 5 & 6
Students extend their knowledge of the key areas of mathematics, particularly fractions, decimals and percentages. They increasingly use mathematical models, pictures and symbols to represent and communicate mathematical ideas and solve practical problems.