Mathematics at Nearnung Primary School is informed by the Victorian Curriculum.

Aims

The 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.

The Mathematics curriculum is organised into 6 interrelated strands. Each strand has a clear sequence for the development of concepts and skills across levels.

The 6 strands are:

• Number
• Algebra
• Measurement
• Space
• Statistics
• Probability (commencing at Level 3).

Nearnung Primary School utilises Teaching Primary Mathematics to support high quality Mathematics teaching and learning.

Teaching Primary Mathematics, written by Booker, Bond & Seah, links mathematical theory to practise. 

Teaching Primary Mathematics includes:

• Approaches to Mathematics teaching and learning
• Developmental sequences of learning
• Worked examples
• Activities & tasks to consolidate learning
• Connections to the Australian Curriculum