HIGHLIGHTS

MATHEMATICS/

NUMERACY

Moments in Mathematics

With the brief return to remote education, we acknowledge and congratulate our students for their resilience and resourcefulness. They have attended online classes, utilised a variety of resources and programs, and kept in communication with their teachers. We’d like to take this opportunity to share an overview of the mathematical skills and knowledge that our students have been learning.

 

Junior School

Over the last fortnight our junior classes have been focusing on the topics of Number in Year 7 and Indices in Years 8 and 9. In their individual learning programs students have been working with integers, investigating the relationship between perfect squares and square roots, exploring indices and applying index laws, describing rational and irrational numbers, and expressing numbers in scientific notation.

 

Senior School

In Year 10 General the focus is on Algebra, specifically looking at linear equations, algebraic fractions, and inequalities. The rest of Year 10 has been investigating Financial Mathematics, with our Enrichment students exploring exponential growth and decay through modelling real world scenarios such as compound interest and cell growth, and if you love shopping and sales then our Foundation students can help by applying their knowledge of percentage increase and decrease. In VCE our General and Further students have been performing Bivariate Data Analysis, applying their knowledge to represent, describe and interpret data sets. And our Methods and Specialist students have been investigating Functions, with a focus on solving and graphing quadratics, applying transformations, and even including complex numbers.

 

Family Fun

Are you up for a challenge? Have some family fun working through these brain teasers! Answers will be revealed in the next edition of Highlights.

  • There are 2 ants in front of 2 other ants, 2 ants behind 2 ants and 2 ants next to 2 ants. How many total ants are there?
  • If all Wibbles are Criggles, all Borkins are Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins, is it true that all Borkins are Criggles?