Essential Mathematics CORE for the Victorian Curriculum Second Edition supports students who need additional help to master the minimum requirements of the Achievement Standards and acquire maths tools for life and the workplace. What’s new in this edition: Introducing our diagnostic assessment tool: developed in consultation with classroom teachers, this powerful new tool offers the flexibility to build your tests from one or more textbook lesson or the curriculum content descriptor, with the option to drill down to mathematical skill level. Identify and address gaps in student knowledge with intuitive reports and follow-up work that provide teachers with valuable insights into student performance and growth. Engaging new technology and computational thinking activities in every chapter meet the requirements of the Victorian Curriculum and give students the practical skills needed to use technology they will encounter in the workplace and in life, such as spreadsheets and calculators. Algorithmic thinking is introduced at every year level in an accessible, highly teachable activity-based chapter. New projectable and editable lesson summaries, designed for classroom presentation, help focus students’ attention and initiate classroom discussion. New targeted skillsheets focus on a single skill or set of related skills and are supported by worked examples. Available for download in the Interactive Textbook, they can be assigned as homework or used as classwork. Investigations, co-created with ATSIMA (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance), support the authentic teaching and learning of the elaborations related to First Nations people’s perspectives in the Victorian Curriculum. New modelling activities, offer opportunities for students to apply and consolidate their learning. Features that continue to support your students The modified grading of problems, tailored worked examples, hints scattered through the exercises, and refined language throughout, support students of lower and middle ability to master the basics of the Victorian Curriculum. Developed by the most experienced and trusted team of authors writing for the Victorian Curriculum, this new edition continues to combine logical and sequential topic development with scaffolded and open-ended tasks such as Investigations, Problem-solving tasks, Modelling, Maths@work activities and linked questions to encourage a deeper understanding of the basics. Resources are thoughtfully designed to support lower and middle ability students with structural similarities to the mainstream Essential Mathematics series that allows teachers to run them in parallel and provides the flexibility to transition back to the standard course before Year 10. With more emphasis placed on revision through sections labelled as Consolidating (for Revision) and Gold Star (for extension), along with two separate working programs subtly embedded in every exercise, teachers can tailor the work to suit their students’ needs.