Essential Numeracy for Y12 and Y13

This course is designed for those Year 12 and 13 students who have yet to achieve their Numeracy. The aim is to attain Numeracy in a learning setting where you feel socially comfortable. In this course you will prepare for sitting the new Numeracy digital external that is offered to all students in both week 8 of Term 2 and again in week 8 of Term 3. 

The learning will be initially skills based, then will focus heavily on your ability to understand and interpret problems that are presented in context. Once obtained, these 10 credits will enable you to receive your NCEA certificates at all levels. Entry into the Numeracy assessment will be determined by your readiness, based on topic tests (except for Year 13 students who will be entered into both externals). If you pass the Term 2 Numeracy assessment, these results will not be known until late June, and if you pass, we will offer you new learning material at CL6 from the NZ Curriculum. 

Learning will cover the seven Content Ideas of operations on numbers, mathematical relationships (graphs), spatial properties and representations (2D & 3D), location and navigation, measurement, statistics and data, elements of chance. The three Process Ideas will also be covered in order to formulate an approach to a problem, use Mathematics to solve a problem and explain the reasonableness of a given approach to a problem. This course also offers the Level 2 Coordinate Geometry standard in Term 4.

This is a full year course and counts as both of your Mathematics course selections.