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Mathematical modelling (Measurement): Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve problems involving ratios and rates in a financial context.

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Possible outcomes: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Possible outcomes. Students are introduced to more complex probability concepts, terminology and visual representations. These concepts may be challenging for students to comprehend and will need multiple examples incorporating relevant teaching strategies.

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Conduct chance experiments: Year 6 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Conduct chance experiments. Students predict the frequency of an outcome of repeated chance experiments. They conduct simulations using digital tools to generate and record the outcomes, and observe the effect of many trials on the outcome. They then compare observed ...

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Linear expressions and equations: Year 10 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 10 is for the topic of Linear expressions and equations. Students have developed confidence from their prior learning to algebraically solve linear equations of the form ax + b = c and can represent the solution graphically. They extend this to solving pairs of simultaneous linear equations ...

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Informal units: Year 2 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 2 is for the topic of Informal units. Students extend their understanding of uniform informal units to measure and compare the lengths, mass and capacities.

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Position and location: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Position and location. Students use a grid coordinate system to locate and describe the position of objects, and use relevant positional and directional language to describe position and movement.

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Interpret and compare data displays: Year 6 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Interpret and compare data displays. Students interpret and compare datasets using different data displays and visualisations.

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Patterns and number facts: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Patterns and number facts. Students bring together knowledge and skills on linear functions and relations and experiment with digital tools to investigate systematic variation of parameters to show the effect. Students cement their understanding of the 'm' and the 'c' ...

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Number sequence: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Number sequence. Students are introduced to real numbers and irrational numbers. Take time to explain the real number system so that students understand that irrational numbers are part of the real number group.

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Mathematical modelling: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts. They formulate the problem, choose operations and efficient calculation strategies, and use digital ...

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Possible outcomes: Year 4 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 4 is for the topic of Possible outcomes. Students build on their language of chance and ability to order outcomes or events based on their likelihood of occurring. They begin working with independent and dependent events – independent events occur when one event does not affect the other, ...

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Collect, sort and compare data: Year 9 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 9 is for the topic of Collect, sort and compare data. Students examine different techniques for collecting types of data and begin to consider the challenges of collecting representative data by sampling a population.

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Patterns and number facts: Year 10 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 10 is for the topic of Patterns and number facts. Students work with a variety of functions and relations and their rules, tables of values and graphs using digital tools. Students manipulate, explore, investigate, make conjectures and identify emerging patterns from functions and relations. ...

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Find unknown values: Year 6 – planning tool

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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Circles and cylinders: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Circles and cylinders. Students recall and revise circumference, radius and diameter from Year 7. They understand the relationships between these measures and can use relevant formulae to solve problems.

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Networks: Year 10 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 10 is for the topic of Networks. Students develop the ability to use visual representations to solve problems. This is a new area for Year 10 and may be unfamiliar to many teachers. Also called graph theory, networks and network diagrams are ways of displaying and describing relationships ...

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Statistical analysis: Year 9 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 9 is for the topic of Statistical analysis. Students have knowledge of various representations of data and can now extend this to comparison. Students compare many data sets of numerical variables to make comparisons using appropriate mathematical vocabulary. Students consider the shape and ...

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Angles and parallel lines: Year 7 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 7 is for the topic of Angles and parallel lines. Students identify corresponding, alternate and co-interior angles on parallel lines crossed by a transversal (a line that intersects two or more parallel lines).

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First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 1

The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding whole and decimal numbers, and understanding fractional numbers.

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Time and duration: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Time and duration. Students should be familiar with the concept of time as a measurement that determines how long it takes to get somewhere or how long it takes to complete something. They should also be familiar with the vocabulary seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, ...