Mathematics Science and Language
Term one goes very quickly. All our students have worked most of the time to the best of their abilities.
The Year 6 - 9 are currently working towards completion of the given units of work on Place Value. Place Value refers to the value of a digit as determined by its position in a number, relative to ones placed. Place Value allows students to develop over many years a good number sense and they feel confident working mathematical problems. For example:
This term students worked on the development of an understanding of the relationship between digits in a numeral, which then enables the numeral to be renamed in multiple ways. Year 6 for example studied real numbers and also, they learnt about square numbers and their properties. The great challenge for both Year 6 and 7 is the development of a good sense of negative value digits and how we use negative digits in everyday life for example: (Temperature, Football/golf scoring).
The Year 7 and 8 students extended their knowledge of numbers by using square numbers and starting to write the exponents and learn about bases of the index law.
The Year 8s used this basic knowledge of the exponents to learn the index law and its application in mathematics and everyday life.
Year 9 students used the previously gained knowledge and started to solve more complex mathematical problems including scientific notation.
