Magdalene Catholic College has had the opportunity to be a part of NESA’s Numeracy Pilot Program from 2021-2022. The Numeracy Course supports students to develop the functional numeracy skills required to become active and successful participants in society. Students have the opportunity to develop these skills and apply them to situations in personal and community, workplace and employment, and education and training contexts. 

What do the students think about Maths Numeracy….

What do you like about Maths Numeracy?

We have learnt so many new skills and ways of approaching numeracy. We appreciate this subject because of the supportive atmosphere, hands-on approach, staff assistance, and the mathematical abilities we have gained that benefit us in our lives after school. We have a better grasp of how to execute tasks to the best of our ability by learning about relevant numeracy skills needed in life outside of school, such as home payments, car payments, and holiday planning. We have enjoyed the many skills we learn in class as well as the various real-life situations that you don't generally study in school, for when we live independently on our own. 

What activities did you like best?

At the beginning of each lesson we play various maths games to assist our thinking and development of our numeracy skills. As a class we have all improved our basic number skills. 

In Numeracy we all learn differently, but Mrs Hayden works out a way that fits all of us. As a class, we work together in groups and individually, we even go outside to get a full physical representation of our learning, we have developed our perimeter and area skills on the basketball courts, we all contributed to a running race to develop our skills on rates and ratios and sometimes we also sit in the classroom and learn off the board too. 

Skills you have learnt.

Our numeracy teacher, Mrs Hayden knows what we all want to do after school, she bases our lessons off the relevant maths skills we will all need after school. This includes time management skills, distance, area and perimeter, addition and multiplication, how to pay bills, buy a car, book a holiday and alot more skills that we will all need after school. 

Year 12 - Numeracy 2022