Foundation Mathematics VCE Units 1&2 (print and digital)

Cambridge Foundation Mathematics VCE provides new opportunities for teaching and learning maths in an accessible and relevant way. The team of authors have a strong understanding of the needs of Foundation Mathematics students and the value of drawing on real-world contexts to help them to identify and connect maths to their lives.

• The context-first approach gives students a new insight into how to identify maths in everyday situations and use it to solve problems. The wide range of real-world contexts reflects the diverse interests of Victorian students. 
• Investigations, practical hands-on activities and the wide variety of applied tasks explicitly draw on the problem-solving cycle, helping students see maths as a tool that can be used to solve problems in life and work. 
• Spreadsheets, phone apps, physical and online calculators, and graphing tools are introduced and used as they would be in life or the workplace, and students are encouraged to use the internet to find appropriate tools to solve problems. 
• ‘Spotlight’ interviews illuminate how the maths in the course is applied every day in a huge variety of vocations, including the technology and tools they use on the job. 
• Topics are carefully sequenced with explicit demonstration (and repetition) of maths skills and students can check they have mastered the topic through the bookending of learning intentions and success criteria (with example questions). 
• This careful scaffolding of learning to achieve the best maths literacy outcomes for all students is supported by a range of literacy activities, a glossary of mathematics terms and visual representations of maths concepts wherever possible. 
• Teachers are given flexible options for introducing concepts, allowing them to work with the interests of their students. 
• Teachers are supported by the inclusion of diagnostic starting activities at the beginning of each chapter that help them identify gaps in prerequisite knowledge, and by detailed notes and lesson plans that outline what the Study Design is asking of students and how to achieve that for each topic. A powerful Learning Management System is also available with the Online Teaching Suite featuring a Test Generator, Task Manager and reporting tools.

Learn more at cambridge.edu.au/vcefoundationmaths

1 Working with maths in the real world: an introduction
2 Numbers everywhere: place value, fractions, percentages and rates
3 Operating with numbers
4 Describing relationships with algebra
5 Behind the statistics: collecting, organising, describing, and representing data
6 The data story: comparing and analysing data sets
7 Organising your money: payslips, loans, investments and savings
8 Your money at work: GST, tax and super
9 Your money at home: household expenses
10 Shapes and spatial representations in the world around us
11 Measuring up: measurement skills and tools
12 Location and direction