Kaiapoi High School Kaiapoi High School

Year 10 Numeracy

Y10NUMR
Course Description

Head of Faculty/Teacher in Charge: Mr C. Alino.

Recommended Prior Learning

This course builds on the learning students should have from Primary school and Year 9. Students working at the higher end of Level 4 and lower end of Level 5 of the NZ Mathematics curriculum should be expected to pass the Numeracy Co-requisite exam. 

This half-year course focuses on the skills required for the compulsory Level 1 Numeracy Co-requisite exam. Students must pass this co-requisite to gain NCEA at any level. 

Students will be placed into this class if we think they could benefit from additional Numeracy support needed to pass this compulsory examination. Year 10 students at Level 4A and above on the E-asTTle Reading tests will sit these Literacy Co-requisite examinations during the year. There will be two opportunities to sit these: one in Term Two and one in Term Three. 

If you are placed in Numeracy, you will be contacted to let you know. Numeracy will replace one of their chosen options.


 

Course Overview

What is taught in courses varies from year to year. This course could include:
In this course we aim to develop three Numeracy Process Ideas:

Learners formulate mathematical and/or statistical approaches to solving problems in a range of meaningful situations.

Learners use mathematics and statistics to meet the numeracy demands of a range of meaningful situations.

Learners explain the reasonableness of mathematical and statistical responses to situations.

These Numeracy Process ideas are developed while covering these seven strands of Mathematics:

1. Fluently and flexibly solve problems that require operations on numbers, understanding the relative size of those numbers, and making sense of the answer in context.

2. Recognise and work with mathematical relationships.

3. Understand and use the spatial properties and representations of objects.

4. Understand and use systems for location and navigation.

5. Use numbers and units to measure and express attributes of objects and events as quantities, with a degree of precision appropriate to the context.

6. Understand and reason with statistics and data.

7. Use probability to interpret situations that involve elements of chance.

Faculties:

Mathematics


Assessment Information

This assessment is an online exam offered twice through out the year. 



			


				





    

        
Disclaimer

        
Please note that courses will go ahead only if student numbers, staffing, and timetabling allow it.  Where a subject is oversubscribed, and there are insufficient numbers or resources to create an extra class, a ballot system may be applied.  
Costs
KHS aims to deliver educational courses over and above that which is funded by the Ministry, however parental contribution for the costs of trips and activities where participation is optional, and/or components not covered by the Government grant may be requested, and we appreciate the financial support our families make to the School.