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Mathematical modelling: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive situations including simple money transactions.

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Multiplication and division: Year 3 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 3 is for the topic of Multiplication and division. Students further develop multiplication and division concepts. They multiply and divide one- and two-digit numbers. Students represent problems using number sentences, diagrams and arrays, and use a variety of calculation strategies.

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Patterns and number facts: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Patterns and number facts. Students recognise and explain the connection between multiplication and division as inverse operations and use this and other multiplicative properties to develop families of number facts. They apply this knowledge to solve multiplicative ...

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Follow and create algorithms: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Follow and create algorithms. Students create, follow, and modify algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions to experiment with multiplication and division, factors and multiples, and the relationship of these to divisibility. Students use digital tools such ...

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Factors, multiples, primes: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Factors and multiples. Students investigate the properties of multiplication as they learn increasingly efficient and sophisticated strategies to solve multiplication problems. They also explore divisibility rules.

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Representing sharing and grouping: Foundation – planning tool

This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Representing sharing and grouping. Students develop the foundations of multiplicative thinking. They represent practical situations that involve equal sharing and grouping with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies.

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Find unknown values: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Find unknown values. Students explore mathematical equations involving multiplication and division.

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Patterns and number facts: Year 3 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 3 is for the topic of Patterns and number facts. Students extend and apply knowledge of number facts to 20 for addition and subtraction and extend to larger numbers. They demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts for 3, 4, 5, and 10 and further develop their knowledge of related division ...

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The Power of Ten - Calculate

This activity aims to improve student fluency in mentally multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.

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The Mathscots: Sharing the Sausages

In this animated video, Prime the puppy uses multiplication, division and subtraction to work out how many sausages are served at dinner. The mathematical focus is on representing array problems with available materials and explaining reasoning; visualising a group of objects as a unit and using this to calculate the number ...

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reSolve: Multiplication: Trays of Arrays

This sequence of 7 tasks uses the array to explore the distributive and associative properties of multiplication. Students use different strategies to calculate the number of items in arrays, and use mathematical reasoning to explain which strategies are the most useful. Students learn to use the distributive property to ...

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8N05A Exponent laws - Ochre Education

This six lesson unit of work focuses on exponent laws. Students multiply and divide numbers in exponent form, raise powers to another exponent, use the zero exponent, apply combinations of exponent laws and use the distributive law with numbers in exponent form. The unit includes a slide show for structuring presentation ...

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There are many different situations where addition, subtraction, multiplication and division can be used: K–2 Year B – Unit 16

This two-week unit develops student knowledge and skills in understanding different situations where addition, subtraction, multiplication and division can be used. Students are provided opportunities to investigate the four operations through problem solving; explore the relationship between different operations and inverse ...

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A fraction (like one half) can mean half of a measure or half of a collection: K–2 Year B – Unit 15

This two-week unit develops student knowledge and skills in understanding that a fraction can mean half a collection or half a measure. Students are provided opportunities to engage in meaningful activities using repeated halving to explore halves, quarters or eighths; create and explore collections of objects that have ...

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Making and using equal groups: K–2 Year B – Unit 13

This sample multi-age unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of making and using equal groups. Students are provided opportunities to: recognise, model and use equal and unequal groups; share collections by forming equal groups; use arrangements to distinguish between the number of groups and the number ...

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Problems can be solved and represented in different ways: K–2 Year B – Unit 20

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills to solve mathematical problems using critical and strategic thinking.

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New shapes can be made by joining (combining) or partitioning (breaking apart) existing shapes: K–2 Year B – Unit 5

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding, and skills of how new shapes can be made by joining (combining) and breaking apart (partitioning) existing shapes.

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Goat Crashers (Mental calculations with unconditional probability) - ABC Education

Using your knowledge of different operations, join the Pig Posse to help kick them out before they eat everything. Or join the goats and move on in! Mathematical ideas and strategies this game supports: addition and subtraction with 1–30; multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10; dividing by 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10.

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Multiplicative thinking involves flexible use of multiplication and division concepts, strategies and representations Multi-age 3–6 Year B – Unit 13

This 2-week unit unit develops the big idea that multiplicative thinking involves flexible use of multiplication and division concepts, strategies and representations. Students are provided opportunities to: select and apply strategies to solve problems involving multiplication and division with whole numbers; investigate ...

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Efficient strategies: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Efficient strategies. Students use efficient ways to multiply and divide numbers using increasingly sophisticated strategies. They develop flexible strategies to solve multiplication facts and related division facts and consolidate automatic recall. They identify and ...