Course Description: Year 9 Stage 5.1 Mathematics
The 5.1 Mathematics Course caters for those students who have had struggled with the concepts covered in Stage 4 (Years 7 and 8). It revisits some of the concepts covered in Stage 4 in greater depth. This course provides the basic skills necessary for the study of General Mathematics in year 11. There are 3 main areas of study; Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and, Statistics and Probability. Working Mathematically processes are embedded in the content of each area and focus on Communicating, Problem Solving, Reasoning, Understanding and Fluency. This is a two year course and some concepts covered early will be further developed later. It is important that students make a serious effort from the beginning of Year 9.