Year 9 Mathematics - Curriculum Level 2
Staff teaching level 2 classess will devise a teaching sequence of lesson and assessment plans which implements the following curriculum.
Curriculum Content.
The Year 9 Curriculum level 3 mathematics course covers five strands of the mathematics curriculum, number, measurement, statistics, algebra and geometry. The content of each strand is defined by its achievement objectives.
They come from the TKI website and can be found at;
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/maths/curriculum/statement/contentse.phps
Number - Level 2
Achievement Objectives
Exploring number
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
read any 3-digit whole number; explain the meaning of the digits in 2- or 3-digit whole numbers; order any set of three or more whole numbers (up to 99); write and solve comparison problems; write and solve story problems which involve halves, quarters, thirds, and fifths.
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Exploring computation and estimation
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers; recall the basic addition and subtraction facts; mentally perform calculations involving addition and subtraction; demonstrate the ability to use the multiplication facts; write and solve story problems which involve whole numbers, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division; write and solve story problems which require a choice of any combination of the four arithmetic operations.
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Measurement - Level 2
Achievement objectives
Estimating and measuring
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
carry out practical measuring tasks, using appropriate metric units for length, mass, and capacity; give change for sums of money; represent a sum of money by two or more different combinations of notes and coins.
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Developing concepts of time, rate, and change
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
read time and know the units of time &; minute, hour, day, week, month, and year.
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Statistics - Level 2
Achievement Objectives
Statistical investigations
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
collect and display category data and whole number data in pictograms, tally charts, and bar charts, as appropriate.
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Interpreting statistical reports
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
talk about the features of their own data displays; make sensible statements about the situation represented by a statistical data display drawn by others
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Exploring probability
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
compare familiar or imaginary, but related, events and order them on a scale from least likely to most likely.
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Geometry - Level 2
Achievement objectives
Exploring shape and space
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
make, name, and describe, using their own language and the language of geometry, everyday shapes and objects ; describe and interpret position, using the language of direction and distance.
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Exploring symmetry and transformations
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
create and talk about geometric patterns which repeat (show translation), or which have rotational or reflection symmetry; make clockwise and anticlockwise turns.
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Algebra - Level 2
Achievement objectives
Exploring patterns and relationships
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
continue a sequential pattern and describe a rule for this; use graphs to illustrate relationships.
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Exploring equations and expressions
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
use the mathematical symbols =,<,> for the relationships "is equal to", "is less than", and "is greater than".
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Assessment
All assessments are to be obtained from the HOD. They come from the AWS Mathematics Assessments series of which the Department has a copy and therefore photocopiable rights.These multi level assessments cover each of the strands at levels 2,3,4 and 5.
There are also sets of multi strand assessments addressing the specific levels of the curriculum. The level 3 assessment covers all the strands at level 3.
At the conclusion of each assessment the marked scripts are to be filed in the students file.