The purpose of this unit is to enable students to explore mathematics beyond its familiar and everyday use to its application in wider, less personal contexts such as newspapers and other media reports, workplace documents and procedures, and specific projects at home or in the community.
The contexts selected for numeracy skill development across the four Learning Outcomes in Numeracy Skills Senior – Unit 1 has where possible has practical application to workplace scenarios.
The purpose of this unit is to enable students to develop, refine, extend and apply numeracy knowledge and skills through an investigation in a familiar industry area linked to the VET units in their VCAL program or employment. The numeracy involved focuses on Number, Measurement, Financial Numeracy, and Probability and Statistics.
This unit seeks to extend students’ understanding of how numerical knowledge and skills can be transferred to an industry area. The key processes involve identifying mathematics, applying it and communicating the results.
Linkage to VCAL Numeracy Senior – Unit 2. It is important to note that a key focus of Numeracy Skills Senior – Unit 1 is the numeracy skill development required in a variety of industry workplaces.
Throughout the whole numeracy unit, the 5 broad skill areas of. Interpreting, estimating, calculating, predicting and problem-solving.
• Mathematical knowledge and techniques Interpreting
• Comparative mathematics Examine the differences
• Estimation and approximation Estimating and Predicting
• Writing and interpreting numerical expressions Calculating
• Applying mathematics. Problem- Solving
At the end of the unit students will have the capacity to interpret and analyse how mathematics is represented and used. They can recognise and use some of the conventions and symbolism of formal mathematics. The mathematics involved would include numbers and data, financial numeracy, time and location, measurement and design, the use of software tools and devices and an introductory understanding of the use of formulae and problem-solving strategies.
- Teacher: Carmelina Rainone