Mathematics Department Elementary School

Our elementary Mathematics Program seeks to offer the students the opportunity to explore ideas in a context that provides a connection between these ideas. The program aims to provide excellent opportunities to explore basic mathematical concepts. It is hoped that the activities incorporated in our program will encourage a measure of creativity and ingenuity, which we feel is an essential part of learning mathematics.

Throughout our Mathematics Program, students are engaged in a wide range of purposeful activities. These activities:

• Involve students in different modes of learning, including exploring and investigating, doing and observing, talking and listening, discussing and asking questions, reflecting, drafting, reading and recording
• Include both independent and co-operative learning
• Bring together different areas of mathematics
• Develop mental skills
• Use, where appropriate, student's own interests or questions either as a starting point, or as further lines of development
• Are balanced between tasks which develop knowledge, skills and understanding and those which develop the ability to tackle problems
• Are balanced between those which are short in duration and those which have scope for development over a longer period
• Include those which have an exact result or answer and those which have many possible outcomes

Grades 1-5 text: HSP mathematics Units 2009 Harcourt School Publishers

Middle & High School:

A cohesive team of experienced teachers are successfully mentoring and teaching students to develop a keen interest in mathematics by using mental challenges, online games and peer teaching to name but a few strategies.

The following math courses are offered and the relevant text used as resources in the completion of set objectives based on Californian standards