This year, our junior school students have been actively enhancing their problem-solving skills through engaging in rich mathematical tasks. These activities promote critical thinking, discussion, collaboration, and reasoning. Through a structured inquiry approach, students are presented with mathematical challenges, work in small groups to solve them, and then share their insights. This process, facilitated by teachers, helps deepen their understanding and mathematical fluency.

Some of our teachers have been participating in research-based professional learning through the Lighthouse Maths Program and sharing their knowledge with the team. This initiative focuses on problem-solving and reasoning strategies that foster deep conceptual understanding in mathematics. By integrating these techniques into the classroom, our aim is to further improve student engagement and achievement in maths.

Carma de Groot

Head of Teaching and Learning K-6