Visiting Vines - Level 6 Sample Unit

Strand

Domain

Dimension

Element of standard

Related employability skill

Physical, Personal and Social Learning

Personal Learning

The individual learner

… monitor and reflect on and discuss their progress as autonomous learners, identifying areas for improvement in their learning and implementing actions to address them.

… evaluate the effectiveness of their learning strategies … and learning habits, and make appropriate modifications.

Learning

… reflects on own learning and identifies learning choices and uses a range of strategies

… carry out arithmetic computations …

… use appropriate estimates to evaluate the reasonableness of the results of calculations involving rational and irrational numbers, and the decimal approximations for them.

… carry out computations to a required accuracy in terms of decimal places and/or significant figures.

Space

… recognise and describe boundaries, surfaces and interiors of common plane and three-dimensional shapes, including cylinders, spheres, cones, prisms and polyhedra.

… use the conditions for shapes to be … similar.

Measurement, chance and data

… estimate and measure length, area, surface area, mass, volume, capacity and angle.

… select and use appropriate units, converting between units as required.

… calculate constant rates ...

… use … trigonometric ratios …

… calculate summary statistics for centrality … spread … and association

Structure

… form and test mathematical conjectures; for example, ‘What relationship holds between the lengths of the three sides of a triangle?’

… identify and represent linear, quadratic and exponential functions by table, rule and graph (all four quadrants of the Cartesian coordinate system) ...

… use and interpret the functions in modelling a range of contexts.

Working mathematically

… choose, use and develop mathematical models and procedures to investigate and solve problems set in a wide range of practical, theoretical and historical contexts ...

… select and use technology in various combinations to assist in mathematical inquiry, to manipulate and represent data, to analyse functions and carry out symbolic manipulation.

… apply selectively a range of creative thinking strategies to broaden their knowledge …

… identifies problems and applies a range of problem solving strategies.