At Ardeer Primary School, we believe Mathematics is an essential part of everyday life. For students to be confident, successful learners and active participants in their world, they need to develop mathematical knowledge, skills and understandings to be able to think creatively, analyse and communicate information and ideas. It is important to improve students’ numeracy skills through a range of challenging and engaging learning experiences that extends their prior knowledge.

Our Mathematics curriculum provides rich, engaging and authentic learning experiences that are differentiated for all ability levels. Programs will be based on achieving the learning outcomes from the relevant levels of the Victorian Curriculum with the following focus areas;

- developing number sense

- exploring patterns and relationships

- using proportional meaning

- understanding and using geometric properties and spatial reasoning

- understanding, estimating and using measurement

- exploring chance and data

Mathematical concepts are taught explicitly in the classroom with students being clearly informed of the purpose of the lesson and their expectations through Learning Intentions and Success Criteria. Students are able to reflect on their progress and measure their achievement against the learning intentions and success criteria throughout the lesson. The sessions involve a variety of learning experiences for the students, ranging from explicit teaching of new concepts, opportunities to apply these independently and in groups situations as well as problem solving situations which encourage the students to determine how to appropriately use their skills and knowledge.

Numeracy sessions across the whole school follow a specific structure using the Ardeer Maths Instructional Model. Students are aware of the components of a numeracy session and how this applies to both teacher and students actions and involvement in each of the areas. Click here to view our Maths Instructional Model.

At Ardeer Primary School, we make a strong commitment to developing the numeracy skills and understanding of not only the students, but all staff as well. Through ongoing professional learning and in-school coaching, all staff are continuously improving their skills and knowledge. Our numeracy program is closely aligned to the Victorian Mathematics Curriculum, ensuring substantial opportunities are provided for students to achieve and extend their understandings, according to curriculum expectations.