at St Anthony’s
Mathematics at St Anthony’s has evolved over the past 12 months to ensure our school follows the Victorian Curriculum v2.0 and the MACS Vision for Instruction. Each day your child/children experience a variety of math experiences. Your child’s typical mathematics lesson will involve the following components;
- Daily Review – 10min of retrieval, consolidation and reinforcing of Math knowledge and skills.
- Explicit teaching – the teacher breaks down new learning into small achievable chunks and checks that students have understood the skill/concept. (Explicit Teaching Explainer)
- Learning Experience – students practice/apply the new skills/concepts learnt
- Reflection – teacher revisits learning intention and students explain their work and thinking.
Our teachers are guided my the MACS Vision for Instruction to ensure that math lessons are based on following evidence-based practices:
- Number sense: students understand what quantities and numbers mean and how to represent them with objects and numerals.
- Fluency: students can quickly and easily recall and calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
- Understand concepts: students learn the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of mathematics in combination with procedures and rules.
- Concrete materials: students use hands-on materials and visual representations to show concepts and procedures.
- Problem-solving strategies: students apply problem-solving and reasoning strategies.
- Precise mathematics language: students use correct mathematics language when verbalising explanations and steps for solving problems.
