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Mathematical modelling: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts. They formulate the problem, choose operations and efficient calculation strategies, and use digital ...

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Shooting 3-pointers: Part 2

In this lesson, students conduct a statistical investigation, collecting and analysing data using percentages, and choosing efficient calculations and strategies. The investigation is communicated visually and verbally to the teacher and peers. Students reflect on feedback and consider revisions for the investigation.

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Spot the number

Students recognise amounts to five without counting.

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Guess where

Students describe the location of objects by indicating positions.

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Change course

Students identify transformations, and rotational and line symmetry, in regular and irregular polygons, and use transformations and symmetry to make a tessellating shape.

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Fencing the yard

Students review and calculate perimeters and areas of rectangles.

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Loaded dice

Students conduct chance experiments, record data into a frequency table and represent data using a column graph.

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How many clumps?

This series of lessons develops students' skills, knowledge and processes of multiplicative thinking, incoporating a First Nations perspective.

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The humanoid project

Students explore a large data set.

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Lucky dip

Students conduct chance experiments and play chance-related games to generate data, which they represent and interpret.

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Angle it

Students describe angles as the amount of turn between two lines and locate angles in the real world.

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Hundreds and thousands

Students compare and order three-digit numbers using number lines.

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Deadly data

Students select a suitable question for gathering data, they collect simple data and record responses, and then use a simple data display to represent, read and interpret data.

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Fill it up

Students establish a mental image of one litre and measure the capacity of everyday containers using litres.

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Skateboard skills

Students identify the components and properties of angles.

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Bright budgeting

Students make calculations with amounts of money and make financial decisions.

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Fruit fractions: Gardeners of fractions

In this lesson, students use a simulated garden bed to explore tenths. They explore fractions within simulated Asian gardening plots. They draw garden beds, allocate fractions to fruit plants, and combine fractions to understand tenths. Through creativity and discussion, they grasp the concept of fractions as parts of a ...

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Fruit fractions: Fruit salad crafty creations

Students demonstrate knowledge of fractions through creating their very own simulated ‘fruit salad’. Pose the questions: if you were to create a fruit salad what would it have in there? In what ratios/proportions? Are there any fruits you wouldn’t want in there? Which fruits go/don’t go together? Showcase your understanding ...

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Desk through the doorway

Use this diagnostic task in the style of a one-on-one interview to assess a student's understanding and skills in comparing length.

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Which tin?

Use this diagnostic task in the style of a one-on-one interview to assess a student's knowledge and understanding of an object's properties, and their use of comparative language.