Across years 0–10, Mathematics and Statistics takes students on a journey of increasingly sophisticated thinking about number, patterns, space, and data. Through purposeful exploration and practice, students build the knowledge and fluency they need to solve problems, reason logically, and make sense of the world around them.
The mathematical and statistical processes of investigating, representing and connecting situations, and generalising, explaining, and justifying findings are fundamental to all mathematical and statistical teaching and underpin the way students gain understanding of the knowledge and practices being taught.
In Years 0–3, teaching focuses on building students’ ability to investigate, classify, and describe quantities, shapes, and data. Teachers draw attention to properties of numbers and attributes of shapes. Materials and pictures support visualisation of these numerical and geometric concepts. Explicit teaching enables students to make connections between representations and to develop their reasoning.
In Years 4–6, teaching focuses on students’ use of a variety of representations to model number operations and to solve word problems. They extend their understanding of whole numbers to fractions and decimals, and they visualise, classify, and draw angles using benchmarks to support and justify their classifications. Students apply their knowledge of number operations to reasoning about measurements and to investigating variations in patterns, shapes, probabilities, and data. They begin to work with exponents, can tell the time, and convert between units of time.