VM Numeracy is about making sense of the world through numbers, patterns, and problem-solving that actually matter. Students use mathematics to understand money, time, measurement, data, and risk in personal, civic, health, and vocational contexts.
They explore the Quantified Self, using numeracy to track and improve their own goals—whether budgeting for a project, managing fitness data, or planning travel.
Numeracy builds logical thinking and confidence, showing students that maths isn’t just about equations—it’s about life skills. It connects naturally with every domain: communicating results in Literacy, managing projects in Work Related Skills, and measuring growth in Personal Development Skills.
The VCE Vocational Major curriculum has three major outcomes. Learning and assessment tasks each cover all three outcomes, with outcome one being spread across multiple projects.
The below tables reflect the requisite structure of different numeracies across the curriculum-nominated contexts.
Contexts: Personal, Financial and Recreational.
Areas: Number, Shape, Quantity and Measures, and Relationships
Shape and Angle
Planning a Domestic Holiday
Shopping
Budgeting
Contexts: Civic, Vocational and Health
Areas: Dimensions and Direction, Data, Uncertainty and Systematics.
Place and demographics
Design a town
Contexts: Personal, Financial and Recreational.
Areas: Number, Shape, Quantity and Measures, and Relationships
Planning an International Holiday
Buying a House
Building a House
Contexts: Civic, Vocational and Health
Areas: Dimensions and Direction, Data, Uncertainty and Systematics.
Gambling and Society
Social Media
Personal and Community Fitness Planning
This module, designed as a fun and physical exercise, allows students to ease into their thinking and understanding about math in the real world. It can be either competitive or collaborative, and invites students to look deeper into both natural and man-made environments, both immediately around them and through research. Additionally it allows a teacher/facilitator opportunity to differentiate instruction and mode, investigate groupings, and set the tone of how to think about math in different contexts.
Students will familiarise themselves with the language of trigonometry, identifying, describing and appraising shape, direction and length in both formal and informal units.
Duration: 2-4 hours