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The draft New South Wales Mathematics Syllabus 1 The draft NSW Mathematics Syllabus Syllabus available from NSW Board of Studies The content in this presentation is not endorsed by the NSW Board of Studies

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The draft New South Wales Mathematics Syllabus

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The draft NSW Mathematics Syllabus

Syllabus available from NSW Board of Studies

The content in this presentation is not endorsed by the NSW Board of Studies

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The draft New South Wales Mathematics Syllabus2

Timeline

• 14 June – 22 August: Consultation

• October 2011 Final Syllabus, Consultation Report and BoS Endorsement

• ACARA to finalise achievement standards by October

• Term 4 Final Publication of Syllabus

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NSW BOS Syllabus ↔ ACARA Aust Curric

• Implementation of the Australian Curriculum Content Descriptors, without change

• NSW did not sign up to implement the elaborations

• NSW Teachers only have to be concerned with NSW Syllabus (by implementing this, you implement the AC)

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Development of Syllabus

• The Current NSW Syllabus document have been acknowledged as a ‘quality document’

• Direction taken from “direction for syllabus writers” document

• Team of both primary and secondary mathematics writers

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Features of the new Syllabus

SECTION 1 (PG 8) – Introduction, the same for all subjectsSECTION 2 (PG 11) – Rationale (rewritten for NSW, not

ACARA’sSECTION 3 (PG 12) – Place of the Mathematics CurriculumSECTION 4 (PG 14) – Aims (these are from Acara,

although one has been left out and incorporated in the objectives)

SECTION 5 (PG 15) – Objectives (Knowledge and Skills > WM, NA, MG, SP (new, from ACARA) and Values (updated)

SECTION 9.2 (PG 358) – Stage StatementsSECTION 10 (PG 358) – Assessment

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Organisation of Content (p22)

Target diagram on pg 22 now includes Yr 7-10 (previouslyJust K-6)

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Organisation of Content (p22)

• “Working Mathematically” Understanding, Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning descriptions are from AC

• Table linking Stage 5 pathways to Stage 6 (i.e. the important topics for stage 6 courses)

• Additional content has been reviewed and restructured

• Cross-curriculum areas are from ACARA, but the descriptions have been written by BoS as to what they might look like for Maths. Some have not been included (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders / ASIA)

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Presentation of Content

• Presented in stages (except for 7-10 life skills)• Stage 5 is treated as one stage (i.e. 5.1, 5.2 and

5.3 is all together for each substrand• Each stage is arranged by the 3 AC strands and

then substrands• Generally content is in the stages prescribed by

ACARA (some has been move earlier, e.g. Pythagoras’ Theorem has been moved to Stage 4, but is in Year 9 AC) – there was too much content in Stage 5, but not enough in stage 4

• Stage 4 and 5 substrands have been strengthened

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Presentation of Content

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Treatment of Outcomes

• Previously 1 outcome per topic. Now there are many.

• Stage 4 and 5 have reduced the outcomes from 75 to 42

• WM Outcomes are more prominent (at the top of each page

• WM has 3 outcomes

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Working Mathematically Outcomes

• *.1 outcomes are ‘representation and communication’

• *.2 outcomes are problem solving• *.3 outcomes are reasoning

– No outcomes for Fluency and Understanding, as these are addressed in the content

• *.4, *.5 etc. outcomes are for content• Only ONE content outcome per substrand

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Feedback

• Please give your feedback

• My feedback:– Please write AC code next to AC content

descriptor. This will allow for easy reference to content descriptors and searching the internet for resources will make it much easier!

– Please use ACARAs icons for cross curriculum priorities rather than [N] [CCT] etc.

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