Maths Department
The Mathematics Department places a focus on student engagement, thereby increasing mathematical skills and understanding. The end result of this focus is improved academic performance.
To achieve the aims of the Mathematics Department, we have endeavoured to include more practical activities in our teaching strategies, with emphasis on numeracy skills and differentiated learning and multilevel thinking.
Junior Level
The focus is numeracy skills and the improvement in knowledge and understanding of number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics.
Senior Level
At the senior level focus is on acquiring mathematical knowledge and skills which will help them in their career paths and help in the preparation of NCEA assessments.
Subjects taught in the Department
Year 9: Units on number, measurement, geometry, algebra and statistics
Year10: Units on number, measurement, geometry, algebra, right angle triangles and statistics
Year11 Achievement Standards Mathematics:
Number (1.7), measurement, geometrical drawing (5231), statistics (1.5), Algebra (1.1), trigonometry (1.8), graphs (1.2), geometrical reasoning (1.9) and probability (1.6)
Year11 Unit Standards Mathematics:
Solve time & money problems (5227), take and use measurement (5220), use constructions & drawings (5231), interpret tables & graphs (8491), decimals & percentages (5224), numbers expressed in different forms (8490), use calculations in money situations (5234), algebra, formulae & equations (5223), fractions, ration & proportion (5225) and calculations with whole numbers (8489)
Year12 Achievement Standards Mathematics:
Probability (2.6), practical trigonometry (2.8), statistics (2.5), algebra (2.1), coordinate geometry (2.4), graphs (2.2), trigonometric equations (2.9) and calculus (2.3)
Year12 Unit Standards Mathematics:
Measures & displays of data sets (12332), make & evaluate statements about populations (5247), use probability techniques to solve problems (As 2.8), statistical investigation (7564), questionnaire design (12333) and investigate and report on a mathematical project (1233).
Year13 Calculus – Achievement Standards:
Differentiation (3.1), integration (3.2), complex numbers (3.4), trigonometry (3.3) and conic sections (3.5)
Year13 Statistics & Modelling:
Time series (3.1), statistical investigation (3.5), equations (3.4), probability (3.3), confidence intervals (3.2), and probability distributions (3.0)
Career Paths:
Mathematics is a prerequisite to many occupations ranging from builders, electricians, plumbers to accountants, economists and scientists in the fields of physics, geology, chemistry and biology.