Mathematics Life Skills
Sample units and resources
The following units and resources can be adapted by teachers according to available resources and the individual needs of the school.
Decimals percentages and money
- Decimals percentages and money unit (docx 90.6 KB)
- Currency converter (docx 3.45 MB)
- Estimating costs (docx 71.23 KB)
- How much money (docx 740.67 KB)
- Place value money (docx 601.39 KB)
- Understanding place value (docx 481.86 KB)
- Value of Australian dollar (docx 158.94 KB)
- What can I buy for lunch (docx 451.87 KB)
- What is my sale price (docx 176.94 KB)
- Wordsearch (docx 225.85 KB)
- Working with percentages (docx 78.85 KB)
Everyday measurement length mass temperature and energy
Everyday measurement time
- Everyday measurement time unit (docx 113.69 KB)
- A lifetime (docx 359.66 KB)
- A question of time (docx 353.2 KB)
- Calendar (docx 124.65 KB)
- Marios travel (pptx 1.05 MB)
- Party planning (docx 69.18 KB)
- Planning a simple journey (docx 70.58 KB)
- Television schedule (docx 71.08 KB)
- Bus timetable (docx 68.56 KB)
Measuring 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes
- Measuring 2D and 3D shapes unit (docx 102.42 KB)
- AFL grounds (docx 43.81 KB)
- Do quadrilaterals tessellate (docx 181.42 KB)
- Driving distances (docx 43.2 KB)
- Estimating areas (docx 63.43 KB)
- Investigating packaging (docx 106.57 KB)
- Investigating road signs (docx 44.4 KB)
- Investigating tiling patterns (docx 214.24 KB)
- Surface area versus volume (docx 448.83 KB)
- Tiling patterns (docx 53.03 KB)
Review of number properties
- Review of number properties unit (docx 119.32 KB)
- A page of equations (docx 69.64 KB)
- A page of money problems (docx 71.03 KB)
- A page of word problems (docx 69.64 KB)
- City populations (docx 73.5 KB)
- Clock faces (docx 109.82 KB)
- Games for distributed practice (docx 92.74 KB)
- MAB representations template (docx 72.59 KB)
- Place value poster template (docx 71.66 KB)
- Seating capacities (docx 73.02 KB)
- Two truths one lie (docx 70.88 KB)
- Words to numbers (docx 73.51 KB)
Plans maps and network
- Plans maps and network unit (docx 103.65 KB)
- Arranging the furniture (docx 4.42 MB)
- A tour of Sydney (docx 4.08 MB)
- Booking a seat (docx 1.59 MB)
- Constructing a model house (docx 1.15 MB)
- Constructing a paper airplane (docx 12.87 MB)
- Creating a social network (docx 584.37 KB)
- Following your school map (docx 632.77 KB)
- Konigsberg bridges problem (pptx 3.93 MB)
- Measuring local pathways (docx 5.76 MB)
- Navigating around your school (docx 781.34 KB)
- Navigating a shopping centre (docx 706.66 KB)
- Network terminology (pptx 3.39 MB)
- Organising the class (docx 439.38 KB)
- Planning a garbage collection route (docx 2.46 MB)
- The meaning of a network (docx 496.86 KB)
- Using a grid on a map (docx 2.71 MB)
Statistics
- Statistics unit (docx 174.0 KB)
- Average weight (docx 71.85 KB)
- Collecting data observation (docx 103.71 KB)
- Collecting data verbal (docx 70.12 KB)
- Collecting data written (docx 69.86 KB)
- Colour by answer (docx 143.1 KB)
- Graphing in excel (docx 490.71 KB)
- Household bill analysis (docx 261.31 KB)
- M and M colour comparison (docx 161.79 KB)
- Minute to win it data analysis (docx 38.32 KB)
- Most popular time of the day (docx 569.73 KB)
- NRL footy tipping 2020 (docx 129.94 KB)
- Price comparison (docx 72.7 KB)
- Screen time (pptx 487.72 KB)
Probability
- Probability unit (docx 104.46 KB)
- Chocolate game (docx 69.23 KB)
- Coin flip investigation (docx 91.44 KB)
- Dicey test making (docx 43.77 KB)
- Greedy pig (docx 69.17 KB)
- M and M colour comparison (docx 161.27 KB)
- Myths and misconceptions (docx 43.9 KB)
- Paper scissors rock investigation (docx 88.46 KB)
- Predicting the weather (docx 69.97 KB)
- Probability investigation (docx 42.52 KB)
- Probability scenarios (docx 2.44 MB)
- Probability scenarios sort activity (docx 2.4 MB)
- Sample space (docx 72.01 KB)
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