The aims of teaching and learning mathematics are to encourage and enable students to:

• appreciate the usefulness, power and beauty of mathematics
• enjoy mathematics and develop patience and persistence when solving problems
• understand and be able to use the language, symbols and notation of mathematics
• develop mathematical curiosity and use inductive and deductive reasoning when solving problems

• To improve and bring out the hidden mathematical talents of the students
• To promote enthusiasm and interest in mathematics among the students
• select and apply appropriate inquiry and mathematical problem-solving techniques
• recognize patterns
• describe patterns as relationships or general rules
• draw conclusions consistent with findings
• justify or prove mathematical relationships and general rules.
• use different forms of mathematical representation (formulae, diagrams, tables, charts, graphs and models)
• move between different forms of representation.
• explain whether their results make sense in the context of the problem
• explain the importance of their findings
• justify the degree of accuracy of their results where appropriate
• suggest improvements to the method when necessary.