The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics aims to ensure that students:
- are confident, creative users and communicators of mathematics, able to investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives and as active citizens
- develop an increasingly sophisticated understanding of mathematical concepts and fluency with processes, and are able to pose and solve problems and reason in Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability
- recognise connections between the areas of mathematics and other disciplines and appreciate mathematics as an accessible and enjoyable discipline to study.
Learning and teaching occurs through a structured approach based on the work of Dr Paul Swan and incorporating the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model. The components of a maths lesson are
- warm up;
- explicit teaching;
- guided group work;
- independent tasks and
- reflection.