Maths Skills

Year long

Students in this class will engage with the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 at levels 5 and 6. The curriculum is organised into 6 strands: Number, Algebra, Measurement, Space, Statistics and Probability.  

Maths Skills is a course designed to help students build confidence and strengthen their understanding of everyday mathematics. The focus is on developing practical skills that students can use in real-life situations, while working at a pace that supports individual learning needs. 

Students revisit and consolidate key number skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as working with fractions, decimals, and percentages. They learn strategies to solve problems efficiently using mental maths, written methods, and calculators, and develop a clearer understanding of how numbers work. 

The course also explores measurement and space, with students learning how to measure area and perimeter, estimate and compare everyday quantities, and use appropriate metric units. Students practise working with coordinates to describe position and movement on a grid. 

Throughout the course, students are encouraged to think about the purpose of mathematics, check whether their answers are reasonable, and explain their thinking clearly. Maths Skills aims to build confidence, independence, and a positive approach to learning mathematics.