Mathematics

This year, our Year 6 students will engage with the Victorian Mathematics Curriculum 2.0, designed to deepen mathematical understanding and problem-solving skills. The updated curriculum emphasizes real-world applications, critical thinking, and reasoning, ensuring students develop strong foundations for secondary school.

In our upcoming lessons, we will focus on key topics across three major areas:

• Number: Developing a strong understanding of place value, properties of numbers, powers of 10, rounding, and decimals. Students will refine their fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, explore factors and multiples (including highest common factor and lowest common multiple), and apply laws such as distributive and divisibility rules. They will also investigate index notation and efficient calculation strategies.
• Space & Measurement: Strengthening skills in choosing appropriate measurement units, understanding and converting between units, and exploring properties of shapes. Students will calculate area, perimeter, volume, and capacity, and apply spatial reasoning to solve problems.
• Statistics & Probability: Interpreting and representing data through various displays, including tables and graphs. Students will investigate statistical concepts such as mean, median, mode, and range, and conduct data investigations to identify trends and make informed conclusions.

We look forward to seeing our students grow as confident, capable mathematicians under this new approach!