Mathematics at Melrose High School provides students with essential mathematical knowledge, skills, procedures and processes in number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics, probability and finances. It develops the numeracy capabilities that all students need in their personal, work and civic lives, and provides the fundamentals on which mathematical specialties and professional applications of mathematics are built.
At Melrose, teachers provide students with learning opportunities to develop mathematical proficiency, including a sound understanding of and fluency with the concepts, skills, procedures and processes needed to interpret contexts, choose ways to approach situations using mathematics, and to reason and solve problems arising from these situations.
One of the core beliefs within the Melrose Mathematics Faculty is that mathematics is integral to quantifying, thinking critically and making sense of the world. It is central to building our students’ pattern recognition, visualisation, spatial reasoning and logical thinking. Interdisciplinary STEM learning can enhance students’ scientific and mathematical literacy, design and computational thinking, problem-solving and collaboration skills. Developing these competencies supports our Melrose students in pursuing a variety of pathways within STEM and other fields emerging within the 21st century.
Mathematics at Melrose aims to ensure that our students:
- become confident, proficient and effective users and communicators of mathematics, who can investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives, think critically, and make choices as active, engaged, numerate citizens
- develop proficiency with mathematical concepts, skills, procedures and processes, and use them to demonstrate mastery in mathematics as they pose and solve problems, and reason with number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability
- make connections between areas of mathematics and apply mathematics to model situations in various fields and disciplines
- foster a positive disposition towards mathematics, recognising it as an accessible and useful discipline to study
- acquire specialist mathematical knowledge and skills that underpin numeracy development and lead to further study in mathematics and other disciplines
- develop the capacity to be active problem solvers and critical thinkers and utilise and apply numeracy skills in a range of contexts for the purpose of analysis and justification
Within the mathematics faculty at Melrose we offer a range of extension opportunities for our students and these include;
- Australian Mathematics Competition
- ACT Regional Maths, Science & IT Challenge
- Canberra Girls Programming Network
- ICAS Mathematics Competition
- Engineering Games