Mathematics

In the development of an understanding of Mathematics, St. Mary's School uses the Professional Learning Community Framework. Essential Learnings have been identified and are taught through learning cycles. All students complete Pre and Post Common Assessment Tasks. Student data is used to plan the teaching and learning. Response to Intervention Sessions are held weekly to support students closely at their point of need. 
The Mathematics curriculum aims to ensure that students:

• develop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for everyday life, work and as active and critical citizens in a technological world
• see connections and apply mathematical concepts, skills and processes to pose and solve problems in mathematics and in other disciplines and contexts
• acquire specialist knowledge and skills in mathematics that provide for further study in the discipline
• appreciate mathematics as a discipline – its history, ideas, problems and applications, aesthetics and philosophy.