Skills your child will learn in mathematics
The aim is to develop your child’s knowledge and abilities across every maths topic using five key learning approaches.
1. Fluency: Your child will be supported to:
Learn, understand and recall definitions and facts to calculate answers and find solutions
Choose and carry out the most appropriate procedure, method or strategy to solve different problems.
2. Understanding: Your child will be supported to:
Learn, explore and adapt and transfer a range of different mathematical strategies.
Connect different mathematical concepts.
Apply mathematics to the classroom, life situations and the world around them.
3. Communicating: Your child will be supported to:
Describe, represent and explain mathematical situations, concepts, methods and solutions.
Use a variety of representations to express mathematical ideas, such as writing them down, talking about them and recording them in graphical forms.
4. Problem solving: Your child will be supported to:
Solve new and unfamiliar problems.
Investigate different strategies and plan an approach.
Work through problems to arrive at solutions and answers.
Check that calculations are correct and conclusions are reasonable.
5. Reasoning: Your child will be supported to:
Explain their thinking.
Analyse, evaluate, prove, infer and generalise and predict results
Justify their use of a strategy and conclusion reached.
The Department of Education have wonderful resources to support families here. https://education.nsw.gov.au/parents-and-carers/learning/maths
While you're there, check out the Everyday Maths Hub that was launched earlier this year. It is a wonderful resource that will support your child learn about mathematics in the word around us. https://education.nsw.gov.au/campaigns/mathematics/everyday-maths
