Multi-age 3–6, mathematics, Year A, Unit 01
This unit develops the big idea that our number system extends infinitely to very large and very small numbers.
Syllabus
Outcomes and content descriptors from Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2022) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.
Students are provided with opportunities to:
- name, rename, represent and order numbers
- compare, order and represent decimals
- explore the link between multiplicative thinking and place value.
Syllabus focus and content groups
Representing numbers using place value A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-RN-01
- Whole numbers: Read, represent and order numbers to thousands
- Whole numbers: Apply place value to partition and regroup numbers up to 4 digits
Representing numbers using place value B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-RN-01
- Whole numbers: Order numbers in the thousands
- Whole numbers: Recognise and represent numbers that are 10, 100 or 1000 times as large
Multiplicative relations A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-MR-01
- Generate and describe patterns
- Use arrays to establish multiplication facts from multiples of 2 and 4, 5 and 10
- Recall multiplication facts of 2 and 4, 5 and 10 and related division facts
Represents numbers A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RN-01, MA3-RN-02
- Whole numbers: Recognise, represent and order numbers in the millions
- Whole numbers: Apply place value to partition, regroup and rename numbers to 1 billion
- Decimals and percentages: Recognise that the place value system can be extended beyond hundredths
- Decimals and percentages: Compare, order and represent decimals
Multiplicative relations A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-MR-01
- Determine products and factors
- Use partitioning and place value to multiply 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers by one-digit numbers