Problems must be solved!

Year 7-9

It has been a busy start to the academic year for our year 7 to 9 students at Sandringham College. Year 7 students have spent term 1 learning about Integers and Algebra. The Year 8’s have been working on Indices and the Index Laws. Year 9 students have had a focus on Statistics and Probability.

It is fantastic seeing the Maths Club up and running for 2023, thanks to Estelle Ashkar who has made herself available every Tuesday lunch time to offer extra support to those who would like it (or just a quiet place to work on Maths!). We encourage all students across year 7 to 9 to take advantage of this opportunity.

Year 10-12

Students at the Holloway Campus across all Mathematics pathways are working hard on their respective units. Year 12 General Mathematics students have spent the past week completing their first SAC – a Data Analysis application task – and we congratulate them on their commitment and hard work on this. 

Further to this, year 10 – 12 maths teachers would like to encourage all students who would like any extra support to attend Homework Club (offered on Mondays and Wednesdays after school in the library).

Problem-Solving Focus

All maths teachers at Sandringham College have been working on promoting ‘Thinking Classrooms’ in our lessons throughout this term, and this will be a continued focus throughout the rest of the year. Our work has involved developing a Problem Solving model to be accessed by all students from year 7 to 12. Our aim is to teach an understanding of mathematics through using thinking-based problems and we are excited to see this progress throughout the year.