Australian Curriculum Mathematics/Preface

Introduction

The Australian Curriculum Mathematics wikibook was started on 5 October 2015. It is currently very much in its preliminary stages and needs content to get going. To make this wikibook great, we need contributions.

The idea of having a wikibook is that many people can contribute small amounts of content, together making a resource for teachers and students that can rival commercial textbooks in terms of quality, while also being free.

Scope of this wikibook

This wikibook is a resource for students and teachers participating in Australian Curriculum mathematics courses. Since The Australian Curriculum covers all ages from foundation to year 12, the scope of this book is very broad. On one side of the book, the materials for foundation level will mostly be accessed by teachers. At the other end, materials in the advanced senior courses will be used by students themselves. Therefore the type and style of content will change significantly over the course of this ebook.

What is the Australian Curriculum?

The Australian Curriculum is a national curriculum for all Australian schools. It covers a diverse range of topics including mathematics, science, english and history.

Who should use this book

Anyone is free to use the content of this book subject to the creative commons licence. Generally, you are free to use the content in your classroom. You can print off an entire chapter, or you can cut and paste material to make individual worksheets.

Why get involved?

By contributing to this wikibook, you are helping to develop a free, creative commons licensed resource that can be used by students all over Australia and the world. By working together, thousands of editors, teachers, students and members of the general public can develop a free, high quality resource that can be used by all.

How to get involved?

There are lots of ways that you can get involved in developing this book.

You can add explanations and sample problems.
You can add problems and answers.
You can check problems.
You can develop and add images and diagrams.
You can do general editing.

Before contributing

Don't plagiarise

While you are free to be creative and add your own resources to this wikibook, please avoid copying copyrighted material from commercial textbooks. Material found to be from such books will be deleted immediately.

However, you can take material from other wikibooks. As the material is under a creative commons licence based on the wikibooks website, it can be copied without attribution. Likewise, please feel free to take content on this wikibook and use it in other wikibooks, or in other publications that comply with the wikibooks license terms. That means you can legally use this content to make your own worksheets.

Try to keep in the style of the book

See Style Guide

If you are adding large amounts of new content, try to make sure it conforms to the style of the book. If you don't that's ok. Don't let this get in the way of adding new content. Someone else will happily come along and fix it up.

Try to fill in the gaps

If you want to contribute, consider adding content where there is a gap as opposed to expanding content that is already comprehensive. At present this book is in its beginning stages, so it is desirable to fill in all of the gaps.