Mathematics
Learning mathematics creates opportunities for and enriches the lives of all Australians. The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics provides students with essential mathematical skills and knowledge in number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. It develops the numeracy capabilities that all students need in their personal, work and civic life, and provides the fundamentals on which mathematical specialties and professional applications of mathematics are built.
Mathematics has its own value and beauty and the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics aims to instil in students an appreciation of the elegance and power of mathematical reasoning. Mathematical ideas have evolved across all cultures over thousands of years, and are constantly developing. Digital technologies are facilitating this expansion of ideas and providing access to new tools for continuing mathematical exploration and invention. The curriculum focuses on developing increasingly sophisticated and refined mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. These proficiencies enable students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar situations by employing mathematical strategies to make informed decisions and solve problems efficiently.
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics ensures that the links between the various components of mathematics, as well as the relationship between mathematics and other disciplines, are made clear. Mathematics is composed of multiple but interrelated and interdependent concepts and systems which students apply beyond the mathematics classroom. In science, for example, understanding sources of error and their impact on the confidence of conclusions is vital, as is the use of mathematical models in other disciplines. In geography, interpretation of data underpins the study of human populations and their physical environments; in history, students need to be able to imagine timelines and time frames to reconcile related events; and in English, deriving quantitative and spatial information is an important aspect of making meaning of texts.
The curriculum anticipates that schools will ensure all students benefit from access to the power of mathematical reasoning and learn to apply their mathematical understanding creatively and efficiently. The Mathematics curriculum provides students with carefully paced, in-depth study of critical skills and concepts. It encourages teachers to help students become self-motivated, confident learners through inquiry and active participation in challenging and engaging experiences.
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Perimeter Word Problems Worksheet
Get students solving real-life perimeter word problems with a printable worksheet for 3rd and 4th grade.
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Factor Pairs – Task Cards
List the fact pairs of each product with this set of 24 task cards.
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Positional Language Worksheet – The House
A house-themed worksheet to use when teaching younger students about positional language.
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Foundation Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
18 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Mini-Mystery – Who Won the Race?
A fun, logic-based activity where students read clues to solve the mystery.
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Bridging to Ten PowerPoint
A 14-slide PowerPoint that uses engaging animations to step students through the 'bridging to ten' addition strategy.
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Add and Reveal the Picture PowerPoint – Addition Practice (Basic)
An appealing PowerPoint for students to interact with when practising addition facts.
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Complex Dot-to-dot – Square Numbers (Skateboarder) – Worksheet
A complex dot-to-dot where students order square numbers.
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Ten More, Ten Less Task Cards
A set of 24 task cards to enable students to practise identifying ten more and ten less than a number.
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Count and Graph – The Picnic
A picnic-themed hands-on activity to introduce graphing skills.
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Crazy Boxes – 1 to 12 Times Tables
A fun multiplication worksheet where students create a colour pattern using 1 to 12 times tables.
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Crazy Boxes – 2, 3, 5, 10 Times Tables
A fun multiplication worksheet where students create a colour pattern using 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables.
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Money Dominoes (Lower Years) – Game
Twenty-four domino cards using Australian currency.
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The Addition Labyrinth – Maths Game
A dynamic addition board game for the classroom.
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Open Number Line Worksheets
Provide your students with a blank number line worksheet for number and algebra work.
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Money Card Games (Australian Currency) – Coins
A pack of money game instructions to teach your students about Australian Currency.
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Funky Fractions 'Quarters' Craft Activity
A craft activity to encourage students to colour, match and discuss the four quarters of a shape.
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5-Digit Number of the Day Worksheet
A 5-digit place value worksheet to represent the number of the day in different ways.
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Maths Warm Ups Interactive PowerPoint - Year 1
A PowerPoint providing a series of warm up activities for Year 1 students across the curriculum.
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Number Sequencing 1 to 20 - Worksheet
A monster themed place value worksheet to use when identifying the missing numbers in a sequence.
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Coordinates Drawing - House
Students create this house by following the directions.
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Metric Units of Measurement Connectors
A worksheet connecting units of measurement.
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Pattern Activity Cards - Fruit
Pattern activities using fruit.
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Division Bingo - Numbers
32 different bingo cards using division.
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Dot-to-Dot Drawing - Numbers by 10 - Shark
Join the dots and numbers to make a picture.
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BOMDAS Poster
A poster highlighting the acronym for BOMDAS.
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Multiples Posters 1–12
Reinforce skip-counting and listing multiples of a number with this muted rainbow number display.
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Coin Sheets (Australian Currency)
A sheet of coins to use with games and activities.
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Time Conversion Chart - Year 5 Maths
Help your Year 5 Maths students learn to convert units of time with a printable Time Conversion Chart.
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Australian Currency Poster - Coins
A poster showing different Australian coins and their values.
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Rainbow Numbers Poster
A poster showing rainbow numbers, or fact families to ten.
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Patterns and Algebra Worksheets - Year 2
4 patterns and algebra worksheets linked to the Australian Curriculum.