VCE-VM Numeracy
Numeracy study components VCE Vocational Major Numeracy is designed around four complementary and essential components:
1. Eight areas of study (four in each unit) that name and describe a range of different mathematical knowledge and skills that are expected to be used and applied across the three outcomes.
2. Outcome 1 is framed around working mathematically across six different numeracy contexts:
a) Personal numeracy
b) Civic numeracy
c) Financial numeracy
d) Health numeracy
e) Vocational numeracy
f) Recreational numeracy.
3. Outcome 2 elaborates and describes a fourstage problem-solving cycle that underpins the capabilities required to solve a mathematical problem embedded in the real world.
4. Outcome 3 requires students to develop and use a technical mathematical toolkit as they undertake their numeracy activities and tasks. Students should be able to confidently use multiple mathematical tools, both analogue and digital/ technological.
The VM Numeracy Structure
In Units 1 to 4 students will develop their numeracy practices to make sense of their personal, public and vocational lives. They will develop mathematical skills with consideration of their local, community, national and global environments and contexts, and an awareness and use of appropriate technologies.
These units provide students with the fundamental mathematical knowledge, skills, understandings and dispositions to solve problems in real contexts for a range of workplace, personal, further learning and community settings relevant to contemporary society.
