Year 8 Mathematics

The Australian Mathematics Curriculum aims to ensure that students are confident and creative users and communicators of Mathematics, and able to investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives and as active citizens. Students develop an increasingly sophisticated understanding of mathematical concepts and fluency with processes, and are able to pose and solve problems and reason in number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. They recognise connections between the areas of Mathematics and other disciplines, and appreciate Mathematics as an accessible and enjoyable discipline to study.

Students with a strong aptitude for Mathematics are invited into the Advanced Mathematics program which supplements the Australian Curriculum with material from the Cambridge International Mathematics syllabus. Targeted assistance is also provided to students requiring support.

Structure

Assessment

Assessment will focus on two criteria (Understanding and Fluency, and Problem Solving and Reasoning) through exams and written modelling and problem solving tasks. There is typically one summative item per unit, including one written assignment per year.