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Rationale Mathematics

Learning mathematics creates opportunities for and enriches the lives of all Australians. The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics provides students with essential mathematical skills and knowledge in number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics …

Rationale | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Aims Mathematics

The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics aims to ensure that students: are confident, creative users and communicators of mathematics, able to investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives and as active citizens develop …

Aims | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Structure Mathematics

The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics is organised around the interaction of three content strands and four proficiency strands. The content strands are number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. They describe what …

Structure | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

PDF documents Mathematics

Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics are available as PDF documents. Mathematics: Sequence of content Mathematics: Sequence of achievement

PDF documents | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 1

By the end of Year 1, students describe number sequences resulting from skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. They identify representations of one half. They recognise Australian coins according to their value. Students explain time durations. They describe …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 1 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Mathematics Year 2

By the end of Year 2, students recognise increasing and decreasing number sequences involving 2s, 3s and 5s. They represent multiplication and division by grouping into sets. They associate collections of Australian coins with their value. Students …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Achievement standard Mathematics Year 10A

There are no achievement standards for Year 10A in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Please refer to the Year 10 Achievement Standards.

Achievement standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10A | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

ACMNA017

Recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value

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ACMNA017 | Content Descriptions | Year 1 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

ACMNA034

Count and order small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACMNA034 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACMNA017

showing that coins are different in other countries by comparing Asian coins to Australian coins

Elaboration (1) ACMNA017

understanding that the value of Australian coins is not related to size

Elaboration (2) ACMMG290

recognising that metric units are not the only units used throughout the world, for example measuring the area of floor space using tatami mats (Japan), using squares for room and house area (Australia)

Elaboration ACMMG090

identifying the scale used on maps of cities and rural areas in Australia and a city in Indonesia and describing the difference

Elaboration (1) ACMMG108

investigating alternative measures of scale to demonstrate that these vary between countries and change over time, for example temperature measurement in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and USA

Elaboration ACMSP169

obtaining secondary data from newspapers, the Internet and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Elaboration (1) ACMNA188

calculating population growth rates in Australia and Asia and explaining their difference

Elaboration ACMMG199

identifying regions in Australia and countries in Asia that are in the same time zone

Elaboration ACMSP227

investigating a range of data and its sources, for example the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga; the number of subjects studied at school in a year by 14-year-old students in Australia, Japan and Timor-Leste

Elaboration ACMSP228

comparing the annual rainfall in various parts of Australia, Pakistan, New Guinea and Malaysia

Elaboration (1) ACMSP249

using parallel box plots to compare data about the age distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with that of the Australian population as a whole

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