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Even and Odd Orcharding - Calculate

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What makes even numbers special? What makes odd numbers… well… odd? Help these farmers plant their fruit trees in rows and patterns, and see what happens when we add, subtract and multiply different combinations of these numbers together! Use this low threshold, high ceiling task to explore the properties of even and odd numbers.

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Multiplying two-digit numbers using the area model - Calculate

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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.

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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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Inquiry Prompt Ribbon Bow - Calculate

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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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The Geometry and Algebra of Honeycomb - Calculate

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This integrated unit of work explores the amazing structures of honeycomb by examining the properties of regular and irregular polygons and polyhedra. Students then move on to solve problems using geometric and algebraic reasoning.

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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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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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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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Event Planner - Calculate

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This investigative project gives students the experience of being a professional ‘event planner’, by organising a special event such as a wedding reception, farewell or special birthday party. Students are asked to prepare a comprehensive plan that outlines a floor and seating plan, a fully costed menu, a monetary quote ...

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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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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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Representing images using binary: totems

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In this lesson, students will interpret a First Nations Australian artwork by representing an image they create as a binary image with accompanying code.

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Crocodile and Shark (4–6) - Calculate

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

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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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ROWCO - Calculate

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

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Reasoning Year 5 - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is for students to recognise the relationship between the dimensions of a square or rectangle and the perimeter and area of these shapes. Students will need to use a systematic approach to show that they have found all the possible solutions.

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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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Investigating Shapes (Year 5 & 6) - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is to discover what it is that students know about 2D shapes and 3D objects.

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More than, less than ½ - Calculate

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This game, played with ten-sided dice, in pairs or small groups, provides students with opportunities to make, simplify and compare fractions with different denominators. Students aim to collect fractions that are more than a half and less than a half, recording their rolled fractions on a score card as the game progresses.

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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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