Mathematics at St John's
Student reporting update
Mathematics Version 2.0
This year there will be changes to student reporting for Mathematics in Victorian Catholic schools.
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) recently published its revised Mathematics curriculum (Mathematics Version 2.0).
All Victorian schools will start using Mathematics Version 2.0 in 2024 or 2025. At St John's, we are using the revised Mathematics curriculum for student reporting from Semester 1, 2024.
On your child’s previous report, the teacher reported against the three strands of the achievement standard for Mathematics (Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability). Under the Mathematics Version 2.0 curriculum, your child’s teacher will report against the achievement standard as a whole, providing a single, aggregated score.
As the achievement standards reported on have changed, the first time you receive a report under the Mathematics Version 2.0 curriculum, it will only show achievement and not progress. For all reports after this, progress will be shown against the single achievement standard.
The VCAA made these changes to help teachers plan their teaching and learning programs in Mathematics, giving them more flexibility to support students to link ideas within Mathematics and also with other curriculum areas.
Please contact Anna Hendy, St John's Maths Leader, if you have any questions.
ahendy@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au
Maths News
Our Year 5/6 Maths Extension Group has begun and the students are participating with high levels of energy and enthusiasm!!
We are currently working on various open-ended research topics as part of The University of Melbourne 2024 Mathematics and Statistics Research Competition.
They have been working on the initial stages of investigating their problem, gathering data and hypothesising.
- Using networks to visualise and explore connections such as relationships.
- Observing patterns in the presented data and drawing some insights about the data set.
- Performing three coin toss trials and describing their findings.
FAMILY MATHS CHALLENGE #2
EXTENDED - 1 more week!!
Family Name: _______________
My cheeky 3 year old daughter covered some numbers on a
number plate with a sticker.
Can you help me work out what the number plate might be?
Write down as many possibilities as you can below.
Hand in to Mrs Hendy by Wednesday, 8 May.
Round 1: Years 3-6: Tuesday 23 April - Thursday 9 May 2024
The Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge has begun across Australia!
At St John’s, the students from Years 3-6 will be participating in the challenge this week.
It is a 45 minute (Years 5 & 6) or 60 minute (Years 3 & 4) online challenge engaging students in computational thinking and problem solving skills in a fun and interactive environment.
Ask your child all about it!!