new draft senior national syllabuses

[tywebb]

ACARA have released the new draft senior national syllabuses at

http://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/d...urriculum.html

Submissions due July 20.

[AAEldar]

Just had a quick look through Specialist Mathematics - it seems far more applicable to university mathematics than the current 4U course.

[Carrotsticks]

Wow, if this were to be implemented, the Year 12 Graduate doing Specialist would have ~the same amount of Mathematical knowledge as the average 1st Year student now.

[funnytomato]

why do the names coincide with some of the VCE subjects?

are they somewhat a variation of the current VCE syllabuses/syllabi ?

[AAEldar]

Wow, if this were to be implemented, the Year 12 Graduate doing Specialist would have ~the same amount of Mathematical knowledge as the average 1st Year student now.

Would hope that universities change as well if this happens!

Also forgot to say - I imagine a huge amount of maths teachers would have to be retrained to be able to teach Specialist.

[Carrotsticks]

Also forgot to say - I imagine a huge amount of maths teachers would have to be retrained to be able to teach Specialist.

Very much this.

[Nooblet94]

After reading the basic unit outline I was incredibly jealous that people are going to be taught that level of maths in high school. I get less and less jealous as I scroll down and read stuff like:

"There are opportunities in Specialist Mathematics to explore, develop and apply ethical behaviour in a range of contexts."
"Students will deepen their understanding of the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples through the application of mathematical concepts in appropriate contexts."
"In Specialist Mathematics , students develop mathematical understanding by drawing on knowledge of and examples from the Asia region."

I'm confused as to why basic trig skills like converting cosx+sinx into the form of Rcos(x+a) are in specialist.

I'm very impressed by the focus on proofs - we do barely any actual proofs at the moment.

[Sanical]

awesome thanks for that

[Sanical]

Ergh, insanely jealous
I love them all - chem/phys/maths

[Dan895]

Does anybody know when the new syllabus will be implimented, is it 2014?

[Peeik]

The end of the HSC syllabus. The new one looks pretty interesting though (particularly the math). The topics certainly form a good basis for uni math.

[Dan895]

Also, If the senior years become nation wide. Hypothetically do you guys think it would be harder eaiser or the same to obtain a higher rank. Food for though I guess?

[Sanical]

What's gonna happen to the teachers? I doubt teachers remember all this.

[Peeik]

The senior years will be nation wide as far as I've been told in lectures. In terms of ranking that would be interesting, but Id imagine it would be similar.

[Nooblet94]

Also, If the senior years become nation wide. Hypothetically do you guys think it would be harder eaiser or the same to obtain a higher rank. Food for though I guess?

Christ almighty, there's more to school than your fucking rankings.

[AAEldar]

What's gonna happen to the teachers? I doubt teachers remember all this.

They will have to retrain. You're right, a lot won't remember this stuff and some may never have even done it.

[funnytomato]

there is definitely going to be a substantial amount of impacts in many areas , such as:

the training required for all current teachers national wide, as mentioned in previous posts
the writing of new textbooks to suit the new syllabuses, also the cost associated with updating textbooks for every school
and probably for some subjects, the content of related uni subjects will have to vary accordingly as well
(and these are what I can think of for now)

[Peeik]

there is definitely going to be a substantial amount of impacts in many areas , such as:

the training required for all current teachers national wide, as mentioned in previous posts
the writing of new textbooks to suit the new syllabuses, also the cost associated with updating textbooks for every school
and probably for some subjects, the content of related uni subjects will have to vary accordingly as well
(and these are what I can think of for now)

Im almost certain there are people writing textbooks to accommodate for the new syllabus as we speak. But i'm sure math teachers will cope with the changes.

[4025808]

A lot of new content would be evident, i.e. matrices, vector addition and all that.

Guess it would be more closely related to uni, which is better.

Haven't done a lot of that graph theory either... and all the statistics stuff...

A lot of retraining would have to be done for this

[funnytomato]

Im almost certain there are people writing textbooks to accommodate for the new syllabus as we speak. But i'm sure math teachers will cope with the changes.

textbooks are not cheap
and we're trying to replace ALL the textbooks in EVERY subject in EVERY school , for the WHOLE nation

[Drongoski]

textbooks are not cheap
and we're trying to replace ALL the textbooks in EVERY subject in EVERY school , for the WHOLE nation

But that's good news for the educational publishing industry.

[Sanical]

A lot of new content would be evident, i.e. matrices, vector addition and all that.

Guess it would be more closely related to uni, which is better.

Haven't done a lot of that graph theory either... and all the statistics stuff...

A lot of retraining would have to be done for this

haha, sucks for tutors that just started teaching :P

[Peeik]

haha, sucks for tutors that just started teaching :P

hahahah so true

[Sanical]

textbooks are not cheap
and we're trying to replace ALL the textbooks in EVERY subject in EVERY school , for the WHOLE nation

That's where the $820/year from Gillard will come in handy.

[funnytomato]

That's where the $820/year from Gillard will come in handy.

lol
it's a CASH handout

people can [and probably will] spend it on anything