Knowledge and Skills

Mathematics:

Students need to deepen and broaden their knowledge, skills and understanding by developing competence, creativity, applications and implications, critical understanding, representation and analysis.

  • They will develop mathematical communication by solving problems using mathematical methods including ICT.
  • They will have the opportunity to do investigations thus developing creative thinking by solving unfamiliar problems, posing questions and producing reasoned arguments.
  • They will learn about the historical and cultural development of mathematics.
  • They will represent problems using appropriate variables, symbols, diagrams and models.
  • They will also learn how to make and justify conjectures and generalisations.
  • They will experience a wide range of learning styles from enthusiastic specialist teachers that incorporate both individual and group activities.