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Numeracy

At Diamond Creek East Primary School, we love Maths. CATCH Maths not only teaches students what they need to know, but also what great Maths learners DO, and what mindsets are helpful to enable success. The way we talk about Maths matters – we talk about it with excitement, a sense of curiosity and discovery. Our model helps students learn through experience and builds a rich culture of Mathematics within our classrooms.

 

CATCH Maths stand for:

  • Confidence    

  • Awareness   

  • Thinking 

  • CHallenge

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All students engage in five hours of our evidence-based CATCH Maths program which is driven by the Victorian Curriculum.

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This program focuses on developing a positive disposition whilst integrating the four key proficiencies that are essential for all Maths learners:

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  • Understanding

  • Fluency

  • Reasoning

  • Problem Solving

CATCH Maths is an inclusive model which enables all students to succeed. We want all students to be comfortable with being challenged and sitting within ‘productive struggle’. This builds confidence, problem solving skills and resilience.

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The Mathematics curriculum aims to ensure that students:

  • develop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for everyday life and work, as active and critical citizens in a technological world

  • become confident, proficient, effective and adaptive users of mathematics

  • become effective 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

  • develop a positive disposition towards mathematics, recognising it as an accessible and useful discipline to study

  • appreciate mathematics as a discipline – its history, ideas, problems and applications, aesthetics and philosophy.

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