ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the history, rationale and structure of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. It looks at how mathematical content is structured and taught across the four stages of learning and the three content strands. The chapter discusses the four proficiency strands of understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning, which serve as the contexts within which the essential mathematical content is taught. The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics ensures that the links between the various components of mathematics, as well as the relationship between mathematics and other disciplines, are made clear. Mathematics is composed of multiple but interrelated and interdependent concepts and systems which students apply beyond the mathematics classroom. Measurement and Geometry are presented together to emphasise their relationship to each other, enhancing their practical relevance. Statistics and Probability initially develop in parallel and the curriculum then progressively builds the links between them.
