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Interpret and compare data displays: Year 3 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 3 is for the topic of Interpret and compare data displays. Students create and compare different graphical representations. They interpret the data and make generalisations.

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Volume and surface area: cylinders: Year 9 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 9 is for the topic of Volume and surface area: cylinders. Students calculate the surface area, volume and capacity of cylinders and solve related problems.

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Graphs: Year 9 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 9 is for the topic of Graphs. Students work with points, straight lines and line segments on the Cartesian plane, and use the coordinates of points to apply the formulas for calculating the gradient, midpoint and length of a line segment (distance between two points). They use digital tools ...

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Today’s traffic tale

Students collect simple data from opportunities to observe events and display it in a picture graph.

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Fencing the yard

Students review and calculate perimeters and areas of rectangles.

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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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Angle it

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

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Shape search

Students identify a variety of four-sided shapes and describe the features of squares, rectangles, rhombuses and kites.

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Work Unit: Mr Moon’s feathery problem - Calculate

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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Inquiry Prompt Ribbon Bow - Calculate

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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Transformations Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

This lesson helps students explore different shape transformations and describe symmetry in objects and images.

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Beeswax wrap project

This project creates opportunities for students to design, create, market and sell a plastic wrap alternative, and to work with a local business or community group that supplies some materials. This lesson was devised by Trudy Ward, Clarendon Vale Primary School, Tasmania.

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Formulating algebraic expressions

This lesson encompasses students’ introduction to formal algebraic concepts. Students will be introduced to the concept of variables and will explore the construction of algebraic expressions using concrete materials. Students explore a range of authentic contexts and hands-on materials in this lesson to ensure their initial ...

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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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How long does it take?

Students describe, compare and order the duration of events. They investigate the length of a day and sequence the different phases that occur within this time period.

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Out and about

Students interpret simple maps and identify the relative positions of key features.

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Convert me

Students explore measurement prefixes and convert between units of measurement.

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Supersize it

Students transform and enlarge shapes using a grid.

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Give it your best shot

Students calculate the mean, median and mode for sets of data and select the appropriate measure of centre.