At Le Fevre High School, our core subjects English, Mathematics, Science, and Humanities and Social Sciences are brought together through an innovative approach called Voyage Learning. This concept connects learning across subjects, helping students explore big ideas and real-world challenges in a meaningful and integrated way. Through Voyages, students engage in authentic projects that encourage collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. This approach makes learning purposeful and relevant, ensuring students develop the knowledge and skills they need for life beyond the classroom.
In Year 8 Mathematics, learners make informed choices when using rational and irrational numbers in multiple forms depending on context and purpose. They choose appropriate exponential notation and laws to enable efficient calculations. Learners manipulate algebraic expressions and equations by applying properties of mathematical operations and numbers. They model and investigate linear relations in various contexts, applying analytical skills to develop conjectures and generalised patterns. Learners use mathematical modelling to inform decisions in financial and other contexts.
Learners quantify physical attributes of shapes using appropriate units to solve problems in a range of contexts. They investigate and model time across multiple time zones. Learners establish congruency and similarity for triangles and other shapes to describe position, location and properties. Learners use a coordinate system to communicate the position and location of objects in 3 dimensions.
Learners use representative samples to make valid inferences and draw conclusions about populations. They model sample spaces for simultaneous events to enable the calculation of probabilities of outcomes, including for complementary and compound events.
Learners develop a productive disposition to mathematics through experiences which prompt curiosity. They reflect on and explain their thinking and embrace their mistakes as part of productive struggle. They develop a view of mathematics as understandable, worthwhile and applicable to their current and future lives.
CONTENT
The following topics provide the framework for learning throughout the year, but not necessarily in this order:
ASSESSMENT
Students are assessed against the mathematics curriculum standards. Evidence of student achievement will be gathered through tests, investigations and reports.
THRIVE • RESPECT • INTEGRITY
