Mathematics
Lockleys North Primary School
Mathematics / Numeracy
Learning Mathematics creates opportunities for and enriches the lives of all students.
We believe ALL students can achieve in Maths. As it is fundamental in everyday life, it is critical for students to have the knowledge, skills and confidence to solve problems with multiple strategies at their disposal.
We provide explicit teaching and relevant learning opportunities related to real life experiences and the world around us.
Students engage in a range of differentiated experiences demonstrating understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning.
Maths Workshops
Throughout the year, all students attend maths workshops twice a week. Students are allocated to groups according to what they need to learn to help them to understand numbers deeply. These groups target individual and small group learning needs, allowing extra attention for each student. Such targeted learning experiences allow for explicit instruction and personlaised learning for all.
Maths in Class
For measurement in Term 3, we are focussing on capacity. Students will learn to measure capacity using informal units such as lids, different sized cups and spoons and bottles. They will compare and order capacities, realising that it is not just the height of the container that matters, but how much water they can hold.
In Term 4 for measurement, the focus is time. Students will learn to tell time to the half and quarter hour, use a calendar to find dates and understand which months belong to each season.
Even though measurements is a focus, students are continuously engaging in learning experiences where they explore number sense, focussing on the place value of numbers to 1000, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students will learn strategies to help them add numbers efficiently. They will also learn about fractions (halves, quarters and eighths), money (the value of Australian coins) and 3D shapes.
Students will apply their learning to problem solving and new contexts using the STAR problem solving model shown below.