Year 8 and 9 Mathematics Program

Year 8 and 9 Mathematics Program

The year 8 and 9 mathematics program at Aldridge State High School program has been influenced by the Year 7 and 9 Mathematics Learning Essentials and the National Statements of Learning for Mathematics. It acknowledges that children in this age range are going through an unmatched period of cognitive, physical, social and emotional change and growth. They begin to think more broadly about issues beyond the home and family, and they want to engage in authentic, meaningful learning.

The program endeavours to improve numeracy skills while allowing students to improve their mathematical skills through thinking, reasoning and working mathematically. The program endeavours to provide a framework for students to investigate and explore mathematics in real-life and purely mathematical situations.

Topics include:

• Number
• Algebra
• Chance and Data
• Measurement
• Space

Assessment includes

 Knowing and understanding mathematics

 Ways of working (including the assessable elements of Thinking and Reasoning, Communication and Reflecting)

Throughout the course of study, students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate that they are able to:

• analyse situations to identify the key mathematical features and conditions, strategies and

procedures that may be relevant in the generation of a solution

• pose and refine questions to confirm or alter thinking and develop hypotheses and predictions

• plan and conduct activities and investigations, using valid strategies and procedures to solve

problems

• select and use mental and written computations, estimations, representations and technologies

to generate solutions and to check for reasonableness of the solution

• use mathematical interpretations and conclusions to generalise reasoning and make inferences

• evaluate their own thinking and reasoning, considering their application of mathematical ideas,

the efficiency of their procedures and opportunities to transfer results into new learning

• communicate thinking, and justify and evaluate reasoning and generalisations, using

mathematical language, representations and technologies

• reflect and identify the contribution of mathematics to their own and other people’s lives

• reflect on learning, apply new understandings and justify future applications.

Other sources of evidence (as described in the syllabus) may also be used when making an overall judgement.

• Underpinning all topics

 Mental arithmetic

 Times tables up to 10

 Key percentages

 Percentage calculations

 Operations with Integers

 Fractions

 Literacy in Mathematics

All students in year 8 will do the same assessment (except for students enrolled in SEP mathematics)

YEAR 8 MATHS

YEAR 9 MATHS

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