Maroochydore High School follows up on Mock Interviews
After very successful Mock Interviews with Maroochy High School, Steve Hind has received the following letter from the Head of Mathematics at the school. If you can help, please contact the school.
Steve, as a maths teacher I regularly get asked by students why we are learning a certain topic in maths, or how could this be used in real life. I also find that many students while they work dutifully are not necessarily inspired by the work they are doing or they cannot see the link to their potential career.
I am, therefore, very keen to invite local professionals, tradespeople and business people into our classrooms to share of their experiences of using mathematics in the workplace. I want our students who are heading towards a trade to understand that they will need to perform calculations each day. Equally I want our future commerce students to learn about risk management calculations.
Liana spoke to us about the success of the recent mock interviews and indeed some of my students came back very excited by the interviews. It occurred to me that Rotary might be able to assist me in identifying business people who would be interested in engaging with our students. These engagements could be speaking with individual classes or a whole year level through our year level assemblies.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Mr Andrew Chung | Head of Department Mathematics
Maroochydore State High School
160 Maroochydore Road | Maroochydore Qld 4558
P 07 5409 7333 | E achun9@eq.edu.au