Literacy and Numeracy

Classroom Helpers - Reminder

For parents wishing to assist in classrooms during the Literacy or Numeracy block, a reminder that it is a requirement that you must have completed the Parent Helper Course facilitated by Josh Crowe and myself earlier this year.  This ensures that you have an understanding of the expectations of assisting in the classroom as well as an understanding of our approaches to learning and teaching in these areas.  The St James Volunteer Process completed with Carmel is a separate requirement to this.  Thank you for your understanding.  Dates to complete the course in 2023 will be advertised early in Term 1.  

Mrs. Cathy Dimitrakopoulos

Literacy/Learning and Teaching Leader

cathy.dimitrakopoulos@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au

     Mathematics - Reasoning in Mathematics

At St. James, we encourage all of our students to be mathematical thinkers. Students having the opportunity to explain their thinking to their peers is very powerful. Students learn from each other and create a range of different strategies. When you are talking to your child about their learning, or their mathematics, always encourage them to share their thinking. You will be amazed at some of their explanations.

Reasoning is a key component of the Victorian Curriculum. Here is some information below. 

Reasoning refers to students developing an increasingly sophisticated capacity for logical, statistical and probabilistic thinking and actions, such as conjecturing, hypothesising, analysing, proving, evaluating, explaining, inferring, justifying, refuting, abstracting and generalising. Students are reasoning mathematically when they:

• explain their thinking
• deduce and justify strategies used and conclusions reached
• adapt the known to the unknown
• transfer learning from one context to another
• prove that something is true or false
• make inferences about data or the likelihood of events
• compare and contrast related ideas and explain their choices.

 Josh Crowe

                                                                   Mathematics Leader

                                             joshua.crowe@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au