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Mathematics / Year 3 / Number and Algebra / Number and place value

Curriculum content descriptions

Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least 10 000 to assist calculations and solve problems (ACMNA053)

Elaborations
  • recognising that 10 000 equals 10 thousands, 100 hundreds, 1000 tens and 10 000 ones
  • justifying choices about partitioning and regrouping numbers in terms of their usefulness for particular calculations
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Place value,  Associativity

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