Curriculum Features
The mathematics curriculum at our school focuses on cultivating students’ understanding and mastery of basic mathematical concepts, theorems, and calculation methods, laying a solid foundation for their future learning. The course design emphasizes the development of students’ abstract reasoning and logical analysis abilities, improving their problem-analysis and problem-solving skills. To discover and nurture outstanding mathematical talents, the school organizes students to participate in mathematics competitions and attend workshops at universities, allowing students to optimize their in-depth thinking and unleash their spirit of inquiry. Mathematics is a fundamental discipline closely related to various other subjects. The mathematics curriculum integrates with other subjects, helping students understand the applications of mathematics in different fields and enhancing the practicality and interestingness of mathematics.
Life-wide Learning
Through participating in external mathematics competitions, such as Hong Kong Mathematics Olympiad, Canadian Mathematics Contests, MathConceptition, the Statistical Project Competition (SPC) for Secondary School Students, Mathematics Book Report Competition, and Creative Infographic Design Competition on Application of Mathematics for Primary and Secondary Schools, students learn to solve mathematical problems beyond the classroom and gain exposure to the applications of mathematics in different fields, thus broadening their learning horizons. They also learn to develop a positive attitude through these experiences.
Promoting Chinese Culture
The Mathematics Society emphasis on promoting Chinese culture. For example, organizing activities such as solving mathematical riddles during the Mid-Autumn Festival and co-host Chinese Culture Day with other student societies to deepen students’ understanding of Chinese culture. The image shows students learning to use the abacus and solve the traditional Chinese puzzle game of the Nine Linked Rings during the Chinese Culture Day event.
External Collaborations
The Mathematics Department has always emphasized the connection with universities. Therefore, we co-organize some activities every year with universities in Hong Kong for our students to participate. These activities allow our students to learn the content of university-level mathematics courses even at the secondary school stage, and also help us identify students with potential and passion for mathematics, whom we can then nurture further.
Hong Kong True Light College - Primary School Mathematics Invitational Competition
Our school invited Primary 5 and Primary 6 female students to participate in the “Hong Kong True Light College – Primary School Mathematics Invitational Competition”. The competition covers the mathematics curriculum from Primary 1 to Primary 6, as well as some extracurricular mathematical knowledge, to test the students’ mathematical abilities and logical reasoning skills. After the competition, all Primary 6 students participated in a series of mathematical problem-solving activities.
Participation in the Education Bureau's Values Education Learning Circle
The Mathematics Department participated in the Education Bureau’s Values Education Learning Circle. In a Secondary 2 mathematics class, we showcased the mathematical achievements of ancient Chinese mathematicians by exploring the “Pythagorean Theorem and Chinese Culture”. The class introduced the classic story from the “Zhou Bi Suan Jing” (The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven) about Yu the Great’s use of the Pythagorean Theorem in flood control, and how he passed by his own home three times without entering, demonstrating the ancient people’s sense of responsibility towards the nation and their perseverance in pursuing success. By combining historical and mathematical elements in the lesson, students were able to clearly articulate the Chinese values of “resilience”, “sense of responsibility”, “national identity”, and “commitment” that they learned in the class. This allowed students not only to rationally understand the Pythagorean Theorem, but also to emotionally learn about the values beyond the theorem, successfully breaking the stereotypical impression that mathematics is only about rational thinking.
