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Measuring sticks: Decimals

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In this lesson, students learn about place value and how it extends beyond whole numbers. They use drinking straws to model decimals.

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Work sample Year 6 Mathematics: How tall?

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This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 6 Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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Representing Patterns - Calculate

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In this activity, students examine the representation of patterns, including as diagrams, charts and formulas.

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Multiplication Facts - Calculate

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This resources describes some games and activities that can be used to help students learn the multiplication facts (or times tables) up to 10 × 10.

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Addition Strategies - Calculate

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Regular practise of addition facts can help children build their confidence in maths.

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Fractions Year 6 - Calculate

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This activity challenges students to unpack a rule and see if it is being used correctly. Often students will just learn a rule and blindly use it. This task asks students to stop and think and then make corrections to ensure the rule works in all cases (generalise).

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Decimals Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is to find out what students know about addition of decimals and what are some of the different strategies students are able to use and explain. Do students prefer to use equations or do students rely more on empty number lines?

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Algebra Tiles: Learning Sequence - Calculate

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The following is a suggested teaching and learning sequence for using Algebra Tiles.

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Symmetry Year 4 - Calculate

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This activity is about symmetry and transformations. The aim is for students not simply find solutions but to think about a way to record their discoveries in a systematic way. How can students share their thinking and compare their answers to someone else?

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Location Year 5 & 6 - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is for students demonstrate a systematic approach to trialing and recording possible solutions. Students are encouraged to explain the method they used, compare solutions and prove they have found all the possible solutions.

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Maps Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004317

The focus of this activity is to encourage students to use trial and error and persistence to solve a mathematical problem.

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How Full Is a Bucket? - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004320

This team-based game challenges students to use metric units of volume and to make capacity estimates for various containers.

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Grid Games - Calculate

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This game, played in on a grid on the classroom floor, challenges students to develop directional language and use coordinates to locate places on a grid. The instructions include multiple variations on the game which focus on different aspects of location and direction concepts.

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Mystery Picture - Calculate

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This activity asks students to follow directions and use grid coordinates to create a picture.

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Decimats - Calculate

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This activity allows students to develop an understanding of decimals and how they connect to fractions and the area model. It enables them to make comparisons between decimals and their sizes and build a greater understanding of what makes a larger decimal and smaller decimal. The decimats provide them with a representational ...

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Work Unit: Mr Moon’s feathery problem - Calculate

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This unit of work provides a rich, contextual activity through which students can explore the applications of measurement (length, area and capacity), to a real problem in an everyday context for Students in Years 5 & 6.

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Café Fractions - Calculate

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In this task, students take the role of the owner of a cake wholesaler, baking and supplying cakes to local café businesses. As café owners order their weekly cakes by the slice, students are required to add unit fractions together to calculate total cake orders. They then solve problems associated with subtracting fractional ...

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Four in a Row - Calculate

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This game played in pairs or small groups challenges students to create equations using numbers rolled on ten-sided dice.

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Where’s the mankarr? Recording and visualising data: Part 2

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In this second of two lessons, students view a video to record data about the bilby (mankarr). They visualise and interpret the data.

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Where’s the mankarr? Video observation data: Part 1

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In this first of two lessons, students investigate data from animal observations recorded by a video camera. Students take on the role of ‘researchers’ and use secondary data about an endangered Australian marsupial.

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