HeyJaredVIC Maths Notes
Alex Blanksby's blog on mathematics education and curriculum design
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A curriculum sequencing experiment (opens the original)
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One of the biggest complaints about the Australian curriculum and its variants is that it doesn’t tell you how content sequences together. Across years you can make some assumptions (content in Year 7 should follow content in Year 6), but it’s very much an exercise left to the reader. So, I want to see what it would look like flipping the curriculum around to take the core ideas and break down how their different parts progress over a descriptor, a year, and many years. What are all the parts we
A collection of interesting statistics from PISA 2025 (opens the original)
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This post is not intended to be in depth or substantive, just highlighting some findings I’ve found interesting. So, I’ll be skipping over the highly reported things, such as the drop in scores for reading and mathematics, and the very worrying downward trend in mathematics scores in favour of some other insights I’ve noticed while going through the reports. Note: “SS” will be used for statistically significant and “not SS” for not statistically significant. Data mainly directly from <a href="ht
WA is looking to make changes to Y11&12 Mathematics Applications (opens the original)
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The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) is reviewing Western Australia’s syllabuses for Mathematical Methods and Mathematics Applications (the General Mathematics equivalent).1 The drafts and links to the consultation are all available here. Currently there’s no end date on when submissions will close, but “The review process will be finalised in 2027.”I’ll break this into two posts so you can focus on th
WA is looking to make changes to Y11&12 Mathematics Methods (opens the original)
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The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) is reviewing Western Australia’s syllabuses for Mathematical Methods and Mathematics Applications (the General Mathematics equivalent).1 The drafts and links to the consultation are all available here. Currently there’s no end date on when submissions will close, but “The review process will be finalised in 2027.”I’ll break this into two posts so
Reflecting on researchED Melbourne 2026 (opens the original)
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We’ve been spoilt this year with more than one researchED in Victoria. Though, what should have been closer for me being in Melbourne CBD than in Ballarat probably ended up just as far timewise given the buses replacing trains. But I won’t let a little bit of public transport nonsense get in the way of a great day. And what a great day it was at Haileybury’s city campus. It was interesting to see what a school campus in a 10-storey building near the heart of the city was like. <a class="image-li
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