Maths

The mathematics department strives to ensure that all students develop essential knowledge and skills to be successful both during and beyond their school years. Only the best is good enough for our students and we ensure that this is achieved through the consistent and collaborative teaching and planning across the department.

We want to develop a curriculum that provides students with access to important mathematical ideas to develop the mathematical knowledge and skills that they will draw on in their future lives. We want the curriculum to form the basis on which further study and research in mathematics and many other fields are built.  

The mathematics curriculum at MHS builds on students’ prior learning and focuses on developing increasingly sophisticated and refined mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, computational thinking and problem solving. These capabilities enable students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar situations by employing mathematics to make informed decisions and solve problems efficiently.

Content covered supports student learning across the wider whole school curriculum by ensuring that the links between the various components of mathematics, as well as the relationship between mathematics and other subjects, are emphasised. Mathematics is composed of multiple but interrelated and interdependent concepts and structures which students can apply beyond the mathematics classroom.