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Sphero slalom lesson

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In this lesson students explore slalom sports and how competitors maximise speed when completing a course. Students research different slalom sports and then share their findings with the class. Students investigate the impact of distance and friction on time to complete a course through digital and unplugged activities. ...

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Fractions: Year 6 – planning tool

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This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Fractions. Students develop increasingly efficient strategies for adding and subtracting fractions with related and unrelated denominators. They develop conceptual understanding by being given opportunities to estimate before computation and justify their thinking. They ...

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Factors, multiples, primes: Year 6 – planning tool

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This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Factors and multiples. Students decompose composites into their prime factors and recognise primes as the building blocks of composite numbers. Students consolidate use of the distributive and commutative laws of multiplication to simplify calculations.

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Find unknown values: Year 6 – planning tool

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This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Find unknown values. Students find unknown quantities in numerical equations involving a combination of operations.

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Angles and parallel lines: Year 6 – planning tool

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This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Angles and parallel lines. Students explore angles on a straight line and angles within shapes. They identify the relationships between angles and use these to determine unknown angles and describe their reasoning. Students should be familiar with 90° and 180° angles, ...

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What is the area?

  • TLF-IDA003551

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about area and using the area formula.

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First steps in Mathematics: Space – Diagnostic tasks

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A collection of diagnostic tasks designed to use with students to assess their understanding of space-related concepts in mathematics.

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Statistics and probability: Foundation to Year 9

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This comprehensive resource describes the progression of ideas that cover statistics and probability. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in chance and data including teaching and cultural implications.

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Geometry: Foundation to Year 9

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This comprehensive resource describes the progression of geometric reasoning. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in geometry including teaching and cultural implications.

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Problem Solving (Year 6) - Calculate

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This unit investigates the idea of problem solving in the year 6 classroom. By the end of Year 6 students should be able to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division or any combination of these processes. They should have a variety of problem-solving strategies in their repertoire, both ...

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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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Space Race Game (Introducing Algorithmic Thinking) - Calculate

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Space Race is a simple board game that teachers can use to introduce the concept of algorithmic sequencing to students. The teaching points provided with the game assist teachers to introduce the use of an algorithm (a simple set of mathematical instructions) to describe the trajectory of an object across a grid plane from ...

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Pattern & Algebra Year 6 - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004347

The focus of this activity to challenge 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 gets students to stop and think and then make corrections to ensure the rule works in all cases (generalise).

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Many heads are better than one: 9 colours activity - Calculate

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This collaborative task challenges students to assemble 27 small cubes as one large 3 by 3 by 3 cube, with 9 different colours visible on each face. The task develops spatial awareness, particularly when the task is extended beyond creating a large cube.

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'Mission to Mars' - An AMSI Schools 'Rich Task' in Number & Place Value - Calculate

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This task aims provide a rich, contextual activity through which students can gain an understanding of the distances relevant to the size of our solar system, and how an understanding of place value, metric measurement systems and time measurement can be used to represent these large distances and convert calculations ...

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Adaptive Speciation of Honeybees - Calculate

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Using the example of the humble honey bee, this integrated Science and Mathematics unit illustrates the way in which speciation occurs in nature and explains how living things adapt to survive in their environment. In doing so, the unit describes the nature of simple multiplicative number sequences and how simple algebraic ...

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Inquiry Prompt Ribbon Bow - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004340

This open-ended task challenges students to carry out a mathematical investigation using a ribbon-bow as a stimulus. They are encouraged to develop their own research questions and investigate possible solutions using using mathematical problem solving and modelling strategies.

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ROWCO - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004358

ROWCO is a card game that will help students practice their addition facts while playing an engaging strategy game.

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Crocodile and Shark (4–6) - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004364

In this game students practise addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers, using multiple strategies.

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Café Fractions - Calculate

  • TLF-IDA004362

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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