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Rationale
To develop a stimulating environment and level of competency in
mathematics to enable the students to become confident and successful
members of the community.
Purpose
1. To help students development positive attitudes, a sense of personal
achievement, and a continuing and creative interest in mathematics, and to
help them fulfil their individual potential.
2. To promote students' ability to reason logically, coherently and
concisely , and to express their ideas - in symbols and diagrams - with
accuracy and precision.
3. To help students achieve the mathematical competence needed in a
society which is becoming increasingly technologically orientated.
4. To continue to develop in students the skills, concepts, understanding
and attitudes which will enable them to cope confidently with the
mathematics of everyday life.
5. To prepare students for mathematical requirements of their future
vocations and for any later studies in mathematics and other subjects.
Guidelines
1. Students will work at a level suitable to their academic maturity and
competency. Cross grouping may occur to enable teaching to be directed at
a more specific level.
2. Extension Group
a) During the first term children with outstanding ability will be
identified through the classroom programme and withdrawn from Year 7
and Year 8 levels for extension work.
b) The extension mathematics group will operate during Terms 2 and
3 and a part of Terms 1 and 4 to fit in with the organisation of the
school.
c) Extension group children will be required to sit the NSW Primary
School Maths Competition. Children from outside this group may also
opt to sit this test.
3. There will be school-wide tests in computation three times per year.
The teaching of computation skills and their maintenance will form part of
the on going mathematics programme.
4. There will be school-wide tests on basic facts three times per year.
Basic facts maintenance will form part of the on going mathematics
programme.
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