Years 7-9

We are well and truly into Term 3 as all Year 7 - 9 students have completed their Geometry formative exam this week. If your child has yet to complete their formative exam, due to absences, please contact their classroom teacher so a catch-up exam can be organised.

Formative Exams are not reflected on school reports but are used to inform the teacher on the knowledge and understanding of the student and the topics they have completed so that a more tailored approach can be implemented to support students who need a revisit of certain aspects of the topic to improve their outcomes in summative assessment.

For the remainder of Term 3, students will be working on Measurement, through the lens of the sustainable development goal "Sustainable cities and communities".  Students will complete a summative assessment which is an assignment where they will connect real-world aspects of Geometry and Measurement to designing a garden bed (Year 7), Water Park Design (Year 8), and designing a rainwater tank (Year 9). Generally, students have approx. 6 in-class lessons to work on their assessment, but work does need to be completed at home and in personal time to allow for students to succeed fully in the assessment.

Year 10

Students have completed their first summative exam on Finance for this term where students made connections between simple and compound interest in simple familiar, complex familiar, and unfamiliar situations. From Week 5 onwards this term, students will be completing the algebra topic where they will be introduced to quadratic functions and graphs including expanding, factorising, and solving quadratics. They will also be making connections between graphs and algebraic functions of different types of relations which includes circles, hyperbolas, exponentials, and polynomials. The next summative exam for this term will be in Week 9 where students will be assessed on the quadratics topic which they have started in Week 5. Revision sheet and revision solution in preparation for the exam will be posted in OneNote and Seesaw and will also be messaged via Seesaw to parents during revision week in Week 8.

Year 10 Numeracy classes are completing a summative assessment which is a “Written learning journal” from Week 5 till Week 9 in class.

Year 10 Numeracy class approval forms

I am requesting your support in returning Year 10 Numeracy subject approval forms which have been emailed by Ms Tania Russell to Parents of MAT101A and MAT101B students earlier this term. I will send another email with the attachment to parents of the above classes only who have not signed the approval. 

A paper copy of the approval form has also been given to students of the above classes to take home this week if you would like to sign a paper version. Please return the paper copy via your child to the classroom teacher or a signed electronic copy emailed to me.

Equipment

Once again I ask parents/carers to supply their child with an exercise book, pencil case, and scientific calculator. Scientific calculators are part of the stationery requirements, which were issued at the start of the year. Ipads are not allowed as exams are held under exam conditions and the use of a scientific calculator can differ from brand to brand.  Getting to know the functions of a calculator takes time and students are significantly disadvantaged when coming to an exam without one. Quite often when I contact home to discuss equipment issues it turns out parents have indeed purchased all the equipment, but students are forgetting to bring it.  If you could assist your child in this area that would be wonderful.  As I often say, you wouldn't play a game of footy without taking along a ball.

If the purchase of one is due to hardship, please get in contact with me ASAP.  Kmart and such places have them for approx $10.  For Year 9 Maths, when we start trigonometry in Week 6 this term, students will be unable to complete the work unless they have a scientific calculator with these functions. Thank you for supporting your children to be successful in maths!

Mr. Kumar – Acting Head of Department Mathematics

skuma33@eq.edu.au