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The third edition of Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum Years 7 to 10&10A retains all of the features that have made this series so popular, and addresses the needs of a wider range of students, provides even greater assistance for teachers and offers a new level of digital support.
David Greenwood is the Head of Mathematics at Trinity Grammar School in Melbourne and has 30+ years teaching mathematics from Year 7 to 12. He is the lead author for the Cambridge Essential series and has authored more than 80 titles for the Australian Curriculum and for the syllabuses of the states and territories. He specialises in analysing curriculum and the sequencing of course content for school mathematics courses. He also has an interest in the use of technology for the teaching of mathematics.
Bryn Humberstone graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Honours degree in Pure Mathematics, and has 20+ years' experience teaching secondary school mathematics. He has been a Head of Mathematics since 2014 at two independent schools in Victoria. Bryn is passionate about applying the science of learning to teaching and curriculum design, to maximise the chances of student success.
Jenny Goodman has taught in schools for over 28 years and is currently teaching at a selective high school in Sydney. Jenny has an interest in the importance of literacy in mathematics education, and in teaching students of differing ability levels. She was awarded the Jones Medal for education at Sydney University and the Bourke Prize for Mathematics. She has written for CambridgeMATHS NSW and was involved in the Spectrum and Spectrum Gold series.
Jennifer Vaughan has taught secondary mathematics for over 30 years in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and New Zealand and has tutored and lectured in mathematics at Queensland University of Technology. She is passionate about providing students of all ability levels with opportunities to understand and to have success in using mathematics. She has extensive experience in developing resources that make mathematical concepts more accessible, to develop student confidence, achievement and an enjoyment of maths.
This third edition of Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum Years 7 to 10&10A retains all of the features that have made this series so popular, and now addresses the needs of a wider range of students, provides even greater assistance for teachers and offers a new level of digital support.
Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum Third Edition combines a proven teaching and learning formula and complete curriculum coverage with a new level of innovative digital capabilities to guide every student through Years 7 to 10&10A mathematics and prepare them for success in their senior courses.
Sara Woolley was born and educated in Tasmania. She completed an Honours degree in Mathematics at the University of Tasmania before completing her education training at the University of Melbourne. She has taught mathematics from Years 7 to 12 since 2006 and is currently a Head of Mathematics. She specialises in lesson design and creating resources that develop and build understanding of mathematics for all students.
The question in the title mostly covers the question I want to ask. After seeing a number of questions here on ME and having taught/TA'd a number of introductory math classes, I wonder what people think the essential skills high school should teach students in terms of math. It might be interesting to see both what math major type people think is necessary and what just general population think is necessary. To limit the question though, let's say that we care what people who teach STEM based math (for non US, that's essentially the non-humanities based academics disciplines) think. What would you like your incoming students to have learnt in high school?
This is entirely opinion based, but I don't really care what content is "covered" at all. I care that students are engaged with thinking about problems which involve quantitative and spatial reasoning, and that they develop progressively more sophisticate logical reasoning abilities. They should be able to communicate their ideas effectively, produce logically coherent arguments, critique the arguments of others, produce examples and counter examples of claims generated by themselves and their peers, etc. In other words, they should engage with the real process of mathematics. Too often prescribing content leads to mimicry of these fundamental skills. We need the real deal.
It would be nice if the topics they are thinking about "build up" to something. Another important feature of mathematics is how mastery of one body of knowledge can lay the groundwork for beginning on another. What was at first insurmountable becomes routine. I would like students to have this experience so that they know what it feels like, and that it is possible.
The nominal entry level into university-level mathematics is first-semester freshman calculus. The way that class is customarily taught, it makes only extremely modest demands on students' high-level reasoning skills, such as reading comprehension, creativity, and sense-making. There are almost no "word problems," and the class consists almost entirely of differential calculus, at which students can succeed simply by mastering rules.
Many students at this level have only been exposed to solving multiple equations in multiple unknowns in the case where the equations are linear. That is probably sufficient in most cases for success in such a class.
The classes that will more stringently test their preparation are second-semester calculus (because integration is not algorithmic) and first-semester physics (because it's all word problems and interpretation, and one often has to solve multiple nonlinear equations in multiple unknowns).
With all that being said, here are things that we just assume as given in first-semester physics education and for which it is already very helpful if you have already seen them for the mathematics courses:
With all these topics, I mostly want students to have a robust understanding of the basics. There is no use if a student can quickly solve all sorts of integrals but has no idea how to apply integrals to real problems or is lost once the variable of integration is not $x$ anymore or if presented a straightforward double integral.
Processing information attentively for meaning;
thinking systematically (structure, connections, etc.);
being empowered to unpack stuff and continually make revisions and sense;
skills of inquiry.
Or how about just cultivating confidence (by sufficiently exposing learners to reasoning that involves more than one step, being methodical, and the process of intellectual discovery)? Technical topics naturally seem formidable when it continues to feel alien to be applying attention span to them.
I was riffing generally that, especially when it comes to hierarchical and technical subjects, waving the white flag at the first opportunity is a vicious cycle. Like reflexively dismissing alien cultures and never getting to broaden horizons.
For most STEMs, they will have a standard calculus course, freshman year. Strong working ability, B level, of most of Frank Ayres First Year College Math is a good enough foundation. Of course it would be nice to have more. And some will have less. But that's a decent expectation.
Note that, in the US, college algebra is a misnomer since the 50s. Calculus freshman year is the normal track. If you aren't ready for it, you're on a remedial track. If you place out, you are on an accelerated track.
Also, I'm not saying they need to study the Ayres book. Duh. Just that it is a convenient synthesis of high school work, pre calculus. If you can work the Ayres problems, or the equivalent, you have enough to move into a normal calc class.
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