Subject Selection iBook - St Hildas School

Skills
Students will be able to:
✦ Pose questions and formulate propositions
✦ Represent and interpret concepts and relationships
✦ Analyse situations, describe the mathematical concepts,
and use efficient procedures to solve problems
✦ Make deductions, generalise and verify solutions
✦ Make logical use of mathematical language
✦ Make predictions, solve problems and reflect on solutions
✦ Either supervised school activities or as unsupervised outof-class
activities
✦ Computer software and graphics calculators integrated into
the course where appropriate
Assessment
A variety of assessment techniques will be used and might
include:
✦ Two supervised tests per semester
✦ One extended modelling and problem-solving tasks or
assignment per semester
Expectations
Throughout the course, students will be exposed to a variety
of learning experiences to help them achieve the general
objectives. These learning experiences will also incorporate
the contexts of application, technology, initiative and
complexity. In general these terms include:
✦ Traditional methods of exposition, reinforcement and
discussion
✦ Investigations
✦ Individual and group work requiring research. Problem
solving and modelling
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