Mathematics 

Year 2

In Mathematics Innovation for Term 3, the Year 2 students will be exploring the ideas of thinking and working by utilising the 5 key attributes of the innovator’s mindset – being courageous, determined, collaborative, reflective and visionary. After setting goals relating to these concepts, we will take inspiration from the Olympics to explore time and measurement and dive into problem solving strategies to solve real world multiplication and division problems. Students will learn about the CUBES and RUCSAC methods to solve worded problems and challenge themselves to go deeper into concepts learned in their classroom maths lessons. Combining all these skills will develop mathematical and problem-solving resilience for the future.

Year 3

In Year 3 Maths Innovation, students will be exploring the Innovator’s Mindset characteristics: Courageous, Determined, Reflective, Collaborative and Visionary. Students will identify areas of strength and create an improvement goal to track throughout the term. They will investigate a variety of properties of numbers, including square numbers and prime numbers. Students will have the opportunity to develop their Problem Solving and Reasoning as they collaboratively solve multi-step worded problems. They will implement the ‘CUBES’ and ‘RUCSAC’ strategies to help them identify the important information in the problem, understand what the question is asking them to do and check that their answer is reasonable.

Year 4

In Year 4 Maths Innovation, students will investigate the Innovator’s Mindset characteristics: Courageous, Determined, Reflective, Collaborative and Visionary. Students will identify areas of strength and create an improvement goal to track throughout the term. They will solve number puzzles, investigating their patterns to find efficient strategies. Students will estimate the number of steps they would take to get to Maths Innovation from their classroom and analyse the whole class data to determine the Mean, Median and Mode before comparing this to their own data. As they solve multi-step worded problems, they will explore a variety of problem solving strategies and collaborate with their peers to identify different approaches.

Year 5

As students embark on learning in Year 5 Maths Innovation, they will investigate how they can use the Innovator’s Mindset and identify how actions demonstrate the use of characteristics of being Courageous, Determined, Reflective, Collaborative and Visionary. They will identify personal areas of strength and the traits they would like to focus on improving. Through exploring sums of consecutive numbers, students will identify number patterns. They will then investigate how these solutions relate to divisibility rules and find efficient strategies for solving problems. Additionally, students will inquire into the shape and angle patterns to generate ‘Spiorolaterals,’ before using robots to continue further investigate.

Year 6

In Year 6 Maths Innovation, students will deepen their understanding of the importance of developing the Innovative Characteristics of Courageous, Determined, Reflective, Collaborative and Visionary. They will evaluate their strengths and identify an area for growth during the term. They will be exploring the properties of circles and the origins and history of pi. Using this information, students will solve problems using Pi, including finding the area of circles and the volume of cylinders as they relate to the school water tank. As part of this learning, they will be paying particular attention the units that can be used to measure volume (cm3, m3 and L) and visualising how big one of each unit is.