Numeracy

'Never say I can't...Always say I will try'

At St. Carlo’s we teach Mathematics to provide students with Numeracy skills, knowledge and strategies, enabling them to actively participate in an ever changing global community. We believe that it is important for students, teachers and parents to work co-operatively together, developing a partnership where taking risks, sharing strategies and posing and solving challenging problems is encouraged.

We aim to provide students with a contemporary curriculum that is relevant, flexible, and hands on; fostering exploration, investigation and ‘real-world’ learning in a sequential manner. We place a strong emphasis on building students’ mental computation strategies knowing that these provide the basis for all mathematical problem solving. We use a variety of assessment tasks in line with the current Victorian Curriculum to drive our teaching and set relevant, realistic, challenging and achievable learning outcomes for each student. We have access to a wide assortment of resources that are used to enhance the learning experience for all students and engage the students in a stimulating learning environment.

The staff at St Carlo’s are made aware of the latest research in mathematics and regularly attend professional development sessions. During planning with the Mathematics Leader, they work collaboratively to ensure that best practice is understood, sequential and followed in all classrooms. The three strands of Mathematics: Number & Algebra; Measurement & Geometry and Statistics & Probability are taught to develop understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning. Lessons are differentiated to enable all students to be engaged in the learning task at their appropriate level. In addition to this, intervention and extension programs are provided to support student needs.