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What’s the cost?

This lesson explores gambling losses by comparing losses to other average household purchases. Students then explore how this money could be more profitably invested in a compound interest scheme over time. Finally, students are asked to critically reflect on the true social and financial cost of gambling and to consider ...

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Lucky lottery

In this lesson, students play a simple lottery game, analyse their odds of winning and how this influences the decisions they made. Students determine the differences between experimental and mathematical probability, conduct a simulation modelling an event and critically evaluate the odds of winning the lottery. The lesson ...

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Sensational shape hunt

Students compare shapes. In small groups, students are taken on a 'Sensational shape hunt' outside in the school grounds. They look around, observe and describe the shapes they see in the environment. They may stop to feel the straight or curved edges, the flat or rounded sides or surfaces. They compare shapes and find ...

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Favourites

Students collect simple data from questions asked and display simple data in a picture graph or column graph.

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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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Out and about

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

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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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Angle strength

Students calculate unknown angles using angle relationships.

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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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Chances are!

Students calculate the sum of probabilities for a chance experiment and compare frequency predictions with actual data.

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Yuendumu leaf game: introduction

In this first of three lessons, students investigate the concept of Yuendumu leaf games and stories and become familiar with how they can be used for addition, subtraction, quantification, counting and subitising.

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Zombies and network models

In this lesson, students explore the use of network diagrams to represent connections, then apply a network-based COVID transmission simulation to hypothesise how a virus might spread through a small population.

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7N03A Fractions - Ochre Education

This unit of work focuses on fractions. Students represent and convert between equivalent forms, such as improper and mixed numeral and equivalent and simplified fractions; compare and order positive and negative fractions; add, subtract, multiply, divide (including writing one number as a fraction of another and finding ...

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8N04A Irrational numbers - Ochre Education

This unit of work focuses on irrational numbers. Students define, recognise, and approximate real and irrational numbers, including π and square and cube roots of non-perfect square and cube numbers; add and subtract, multiply and divide, raise to positive integer powers and the 0th power, square root and cube root irrational ...

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7St01A Data classification and visualisation - Ochre Education

This unit of work focuses on data visualisation. Students define and classify data and variables as categorical (nominal or ordinal) or numerical (discrete or continuous); create displays for categorical data including column graphs and pictograms; create displays of numerical data including dot plots, stem-and-leaf plots, ...

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8M02A Ratio and rates - Ochre Education

This unit of work focuses on rates and ratio. Students define, recognise, represent, and find equivalent, simplified, and unit ratios and rates; convert between rate units; determine and use the multipliers between parts of the same ratio or rate and across equivalent ratios and rates.

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Decimals Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

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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Stand up, sit down - Calculate

This game focuses on listening and matching shape properties to the correct shape, and using mathematical vocabulary to describe shapes.

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

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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Multiplying two-digit numbers using the area model - Calculate

This resources describes some games and activities that can be used to help students to learn strategies to solve multi-digit multiplication problems, including using the area model.