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Mathematics / Year 6 / Number
Curriculum content descriptions
recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane (AC9M6N01)
Elaborations
- extending the number line in the negative direction to locate and represent integers, recognising the difference in location between (-\(2\)) and (+\(2\)) and their relationship to zero as -\(2< 0< 2\)
- using integers to represent quantities in financial contexts, including the concept of profit and loss for a planned event
- using horizontal and vertical number lines to represent and find solutions to everyday problems involving locating and ordering integers around zero; for example, elevators, above and below sea level; distinguishing a location by referencing to the \(4\) quadrants of the Cartesian plane
- recognising that the sign (positive or negative) indicates a direction in relation to zero; for example, \(30\) metres left of the admin block is (-\(30\)) and \(20\) metres right of the admin block is (+\(20\)); programming robots to move along a number line which is either horizontal or vertical but not both at the same time
- representing the temperatures of the different planets in the solar system, using a diagram of a thermometer that models a vertical number line
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Cartesian coordinates, Integers, Number lines, Minus sign