VM Numeracy

This study enables students to:

develop their everyday literacy skills through thinking, listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing to meet the demands of the workplace, the community, further study and their own life skills, needs and aspirations

participate in discussion, exploration and analysis of the purpose, audience and language of text types and content drawn from a range of local and global cultures, forms and genres, including First Nations peoples’ knowledge and voices, and different contexts and purposes

discuss and debate the ways in which values of workplace, community and person are represented in different texts

present ideas in a thoughtful and reasoned manner.

This study enables students to:

• develop and enhance their numeracy practices to help them make sense of their personal, public and vocational lives
• develop mathematical skills with consideration of their local, national and global environments and contexts, and an awareness and use of appropriate technologies.