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Understanding Australian coins

This lesson is about Australian coins, their features, and their value. During the lesson, students explore what Australian coins look like, their value and their purpose. They identify and describe the features and value of Australian coins and make simple calculations using coins.

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Which lunchbox holds more?

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about volume and units to compare volumes.

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The farm

Use this task to assist in assessing student knowledge, skills and processes related to drawing a plan, showing the position and orientation of objects and positional language they use.

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Playground map: an assessment task

In this outdoor task, students draw a map of the playground. Use this task to observe the students’ ability to follow and give directions using the language of position and direction.

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The teen game

Students use standard place-value partitioning to represent 'teen' numbers.

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Deadly data

Students select a suitable question for gathering data, they collect simple data and record responses, and then use a simple data display to represent, read and interpret data.

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First steps in mathematics: Measurement – Book 2

A guide to teaching about measurement including indirect measuring, and estimating.

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Desk through the doorway

Use this diagnostic task in the style of a one-on-one interview to assess a student's understanding and skills in comparing length.

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First steps in mathematics: Chance and data

This guide supports teachers to develop students’ understanding, skills and processes related to probability and statistics.

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First steps in mathematics: Space

This guide supports teachers to develop students’ geometric understandings.

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Which tin?

Use this diagnostic task in the style of a one-on-one interview to assess a student's knowledge and understanding of an object's properties, and their use of comparative language.

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Number: Foundation to Year 9

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of number-related ideas showing the relationship to other curriculum strands. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in number including teaching and cultural implications.

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How Many? - Calculate

The focus of this activity is for students to count a variety of objects in their home environment and write the number for each.

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Odd & Even Year 1 & 2 - Calculate

In this lesson students investigate odd and even numbers.

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100 Face (Cuisenaire Rods) - Calculate

This engaging game encourages students to arrange the Cuisenaire rods to create a face that equals 100.

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See & Say - Calculate

This class warm-up game focuses on practising addition and subtraction strategies and developing algebraic thinking by using a rule applied to a list of numbers.

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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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Number Walk Rich Task - Calculate

This downloadable lesson resource introduces the concept of ‘Number Walks’: taking a stroll with the class or group around the school or the local neighbourhood. Guided by the teacher, students note down anything they see that relates back to their understanding of the topic and then conduct a plenary session back in the ...

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Put them together

Students rearrange the parts of an addition situation to show commutativity. They use appropriate thinking strategies to solve simple addition problems and record addition problems with numerals and symbols.

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First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 2

The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding operations, calculating, and reasoning about number patterns.