Numeracy

At Waverley Meadows Primary School we create an environment where our students believe in their ability to succeed in mathematics. Students view themselves as mathematicians who love a challenge!

Our mathematics program is taught according to the Victorian Curriculum 2.0. Our teachers take a hands-on approach to teaching and use a range of concrete materials to support students’ learning.

Assessment and Reporting

Assessment practices across the school guide our maths program to ensure students are taught at their point of need. Extension and further learning takes place through regular problem-solving in the classroom where students justify and explain their responses and are encouraged to use a range of problem-solving skills such as trial and error, drawing diagrams, making a rule or patterns and organising their ideas in lists or tables.

Parents and Guardians receive continuous reporting updates each term in addition to end-of-semester reports on Compass.

A typical numeracy lesson will include:
Each classroom has a dedicated 5 hours of mathematics each week.

• We begin with whole-class number and fluency work, including skip counting, pattern spotting, maths games, and hands-on activities. We show students how the skills they are learning can be directly applied in real-life situations.
• Our teaching follows the gradual release of responsibility model:
• I do: The teacher demonstrates.
• We do: The class works together.
• You do: Students practise independently.
• Students practise skills or strategies using hands-on materials, then reflect on their learning by asking questions, explaining their understanding in their own words, or sharing strategies with a partner.

Digital Technology is used to support students learning through a range of platforms in each classroom.

Maths Talent Quest

In 2025 each class completes real-life class projects through the Maths Association of Victoria’s annual Maths Talent Quest competition. Previous projects have seen classes explore connections between:

• Cooking and maths
• Pig the Pug and maths
• Designing and creating cardboard race cars
• Bottle flipping and maths
• Maths in the playground

Through these competitions, our school has earned a range of awards from Distinctions to High Distinctions, demonstrating the high level of mathematics being completed in our school.