What are the standards?
The 10 Standards in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics describe the mathematical knowledge, understanding, and skills that students should acquire from prekindergarten through grade 12. Five Standards describe the mathematical content that students should learn to be successful, and five highlight the mathematical processes that students draw on to acquire and use their content knowledge. Together, these 10 Standards define the basic mathematics that all students should have the opportunity to learn— regardless of their decision to move on to higher education or to the workforce immediately after high school. The Content Standards are Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability. The Process Standards are Problem Solving, Reasoning and Proof, Communication, Connections, and Representation. For each of the Content Standards a list of specific grade-band expectations is provided.
The Safe Drinking Water Regulations set out standards for the quality of drinking water as supplied to customers. These standards cover: • E. coli, an indicator bacteria, • turbidity, a measure of the cloudiness of the water and • a number of chemicals, such as aluminium and some disinfection by-products, that may arise as a result of particular water treatment processes. There is also an overarching obligation that the drinking water supplied must always be safe. The standards are based on scientific information set out in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines on the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment website.
Solutions should use existing standards and demonstrate progress towards compliance with NEHTA’s e-health interoperability framework, which establishes common e-health concepts, principles and standards to promote and enable interoperability across the health sector. The Australian government has invested in a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solution and, depending on the environment in which the e-prescribing solution will operate, it may be necessary to apply Medicare Australia’s PKI solution.
