VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Numeracy
VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Numeracy
Overview
VCE Vocational Major Numeracy focuses on enabling students to develop and enhance their numeracy skills to make sense of their personal, public and vocational lives. Students develop mathematical skills with consideration of their local, national and global environments and contexts, and an awareness and use of appropriate technologies.
Unit 1 Areas of Study
- Number
- Shape
- Quantity and measures
- Relationships
Across Units 1 & 2 students will cover 6 different numeracies. These are:
- Personal numeracy
- Civic numeracy
- Financial numeracy
- Health numeracy
- Vocational numeracy
- Recreational numeracy
Unit 2 Areas of Study
- Dimension and direction
- Data
- Uncertainty
- Systematics
Outcomes for each Unit are:
- Outcome 1 – Numeracy in context
- Outcome 2 – Problem solving cycle
- Outcome 3 – Mathematics toolkit
Forms of Assessment
- Coursework exercises
- Investigation and design projects
- Excel spreadsheets
- PowerPoints and Posters
Prerequisites and Corequisites
None.