Training the Mind to Think
This year, I am especially pleased to see the collaboration that has not only taken place between teachers, but between students across Primary and Secondary both inside the classroom and in mathematics competitions. Our cover photo this issue in fact, shows a collaborative project involving Year 4 and Year 12 students working togethers, with the Year 12s acting as Maths mentors (see page 6). Mark Beach Principal
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I imagine our mathematics classes at DC bear little resemblance to maths classes you remember from your youth. As views shift globally around how to teach maths effectively, the College’s curriculum moves away from more “traditional” teaching and instead involves creativity and flexibility, in
In Primary, a focus has been to improve fluency by using Mental Maths with the aim of developing accuracy, efficiency and flexibility when carrying out mental calculations. Secondary students build on these skills and study how the different areas of mathematics such as Geometry, Algebra and Statistics are interconnected, by progressively learning them as part of the maths curriculum at each year level, rather than on an isolated basis.
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This issue of Shi Jie focuses specifically on how we teach mathematics at DC and how teachers are working together across the PYP, MYP and DP to ensure we have a robust programme. Through maths, students are given the opportunity to explore mathematical concepts through a variety of rich tasks and activities to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills.
order to develop connections between mathematical ideas.
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Our IB curriculum, starting with the PYP and throughout the MYP and DP, encourages students how to think, how to evaluate and judge, how to process information and come to rules and conclusions about the world. With this in mind, we arm our Discovery College students with a powerful set of tools that will literally last them a lifetime, even as the world rapidly changes around us.
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