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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Crazy Boxes – 4, 6, 7, 8 Times Tables
A fun multiplication worksheet where students create a colour pattern using 4, 6, 7 and 8 times tables.
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Fill the Grid Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise their multiplication facts.
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Flip, Draw, Expand! - Place Value Worksheet (5-Digit Numbers)
A worksheet to use when consolidating understanding of place value to tens of thousands.
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Days of the Week – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Foundation magazine (Issue 3).
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Number Talks - Integer Operations Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 24 task cards.
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When Does It Happen? Worksheet
A cut and paste activity where students order familiar daily events.
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Operations of Four Maths Machine Worksheet
A worksheet to use when practising addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Number Talks - Division Strategies Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 24 task cards.
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Number Talks - Fluency to 20 Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 24 task cards.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Wonderful Expansion – Project
An engaging project that students can use to design their own additional theme for Five Wonders Theme Park.
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Number Talks - Making Ten Task Cards
Build number sense skills with this set of 20 task cards.
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Mental Maths Division Posters
Use this set of division posters in your classroom when teaching different mental maths strategies.
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Block Beasties - Task Cards
Create fabulous block beasties with this set of differentiated construction task cards.
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Mathematics Word Wall
A set of Mathematics related vocabulary to immerse students in mathematical terms.
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Doubles to Twenty
A set of 20 posters to help students remember double numbers to ten.
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Comparing and Ordering Volume Worksheet
A worksheet that explores the concept of volume.
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Dot-to-Dot Drawing - Numbers by 2 - Frog
Join the dots and numbers to make a picture.
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Dot-to-Dot Drawing - Numbers by 2 - Alien
Join the dots and numbers to make a picture.
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Division Facts Posters 1–12
A set of posters showing division facts 1–12.
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Multiplication Facts 1–12 (4 Per Page)
A set of multiplication facts charts for the multiples of 1–12, with four charts per page.
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Prime and Composite Number Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate your students' understanding of prime and composite numbers.
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Season Handwriting Sheets
Handwriting sheets about the seasons.
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Two-Digit Place Value Bingo Game (Digits and MAB)
32 different bingo cards using place value to 99.
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Money Match-Up Game (Australian Currency)
A set of six cards to be matched up for each note and coin in Australian currency.
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3-Digit Place Value Warm Up - Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use when learning about place value to 3-digits.
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Exploring 3-Digit Place Value PowerPoint
A 15 page editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing 3-digit place value.
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Rainbow Numbers Worksheet
A worksheet using rainbow numbers.
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Multiplication Gears Worksheet - Multiplication Facts of 2
A worksheet to use when learning the multiplication facts of two.
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Penny's Place Value Puzzle
A worksheet to use to consolidate student understanding of place value to the hundreds.
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Number and Place Value Worksheets - Year 6
6 number and place value worksheets linked to the Australian Curriculum.
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Multiplication Facts Poster - Multiples of 2
A poster showing the multiples of two.
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Multiplication and Division Facts Flashcards - Multiples of 6
A set of multiplication and division facts flashcards for multiples of 6.