Vision
Our vision for Maths at YGPS is that staff and students will value and enjoy mathematics, and that students will be curious, flexible thinkers, equipped with problem-solving and reasoning skills that will allow them to successfully navigate unfamiliar problems in the future.
Instructional Model/Approach
Yarra Glen Primary School utilises the EMC3 Project Instructional Approach for Maths. This is a student-centred, structured inquiry approach which incorporates sequences of challenging tasks.
The research behind this approach, states that ‘students benefit when they persist, which includes them concentrating, applying themselves, believing that they can succeed and making an effort to learn. The tasks and lessons that are likely to foster such actions are termed challenging, in that they allow the possibility of sustained thinking, decision making, and some risk taking by students.’
This approach allows for differentiation through open-ended tasks, including enabling and extending prompts to accommodate a range of entry and exit points. A range of assessment is used throughout units of work to inform future teaching and differentiation to meet students at their point of need.
This instructional model consists of a cycle of three main phases- Launch, Explore, Summarise. The fourth element of this instructional model is the Anticipate phase, which occurs prior to the lesson and takes place in the planning stage.
