Mathematics

When you walk into a Wandong classroom engaged in a Mathematics lesson, you will immediately notice the way in which our students are deeply enthralled in their learning. Wandong Primary School promotes several norms within each classroom that promote a healthy mindset toward Mathematics. These include:

• All students can learn Mathematics
• Mistakes and effort are valuable and promote brain growth
• Conceptual understanding is valued
• Making connections is critical to deepening mathematical understanding
• Fluency with strategies and automation of number facts is as important as problem-solving, reasoning and understanding
• We value and look forward to being challenged

Although it may look like you are entering a room where every student is doing the same thing, our lessons are carefully differentiated through a rigorous planning process to ensure each student can access the main learning objective, so that everyone is successful in their learning.

Wandong Primary School follow an evidence-based instructional model, that aims to build upon and refine the proficiencies of Problem-Solving, Fluency, Understanding and Reasoning, along with a productive disposition. The three main content areas of Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry and Statistics and Probability are taught through our Inquiry topics, often merging to build cross-curricular links between the strands.