Multi-age 3–6, mathematics, Year B – Unit 05

This unit introduces the big idea that questions can be asked and answered by interpreting data.

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:

  • collect data and construct, interpret and compare a range of data displays, including data presented in digital media
  • interpret and evaluate the effectiveness of various data displays found in media and factual texts, identifying sources of bias and misleading representations
  • compare, order and represent whole numbers and decimals.

Syllabus focus and content groups

Represents numbers using place value A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-RN-01

Whole numbers: Read, represent and order numbers to thousands

Data A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-DATA-01, MA2-DATA-02

  • Collect discrete data
  • Organise and display data using tables and graphs
  • Interpret and compare data

Data B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-DATA-01, MA2-DATA-02

  • Select and trial methods for data collection
  • Construct and interpret data displays with many-to-one scales

Represents numbers A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RN-01, MA3-RN-02

  • Whole numbers: Recognise, represent and order numbers in the millions
  • Decimals and percentages: Recognise that the place value system can be extended beyond hundredths
  • Decimals and percentages: Compare, order and represent decimals

Represents numbers B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RN-01

Whole numbers: Locate and represent integers on a number line

Data B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-DATA-02

  • Interpret and compare a range of data displays
  • Interpret data presented in digital media and elsewhere

Category:

  • 3-6
  • Data
  • Mathematics (2022)
  • Represents numbers
  • Represents numbers using place value
  • Unit

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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