Multi-age 3–6, mathematics, Year B – Unit 09

This 2-week, Year B unit develops the big idea that what needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement.

Syllabus

Syllabus outcomes 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 opportunities to:

  • compare and describe features and properties of three-dimensional objects by making and exploring models, sketches and diagrams
  • construct and draw models from given top, front and side views, using squared and isometric paper
  • use formal units (litres and millilitres) to measure capacity and use scaled instruments to measure and compare capacities
  • compare volumes of 2 or more objects by observing the change in water level when objects are submerged in a container of water
  • recognise the equivalence of whole-number and decimal representations by measuring, comparing and ordering measurements of capacities of up to 3 decimal places.

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

Representing numbers using place value B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-RN-01

Whole numbers: Order numbers in the thousands

Two-dimensional spatial structure A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-2DS-01

2D shapes: Compare and describe features of two-dimensional shapes

Three-dimensional spatial structure A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-3DS-01, MA2-3DS-02

  • 3D objects: Make models of three-dimensional objects to compare and describe key features
  • Volume: Measure and order containers using litres

Three-dimensional spatial structure B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-3DS-01, MA2-3DS-02

  • 3D objects: Connect three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional representations
  • Volume: Use scaled instruments to measure and compare capacities (internal volumes)

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

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

Three-dimensional spatial structure A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-3DS-01, MA3-3DS-02

  • 3D objects: Compare, describe and name prisms and pyramids
  • 3D objects: Connect three-dimensional objects with two-dimensional representations
  • Volume: Choose appropriate units of measurement for capacity
  • Volume: Use displacement to investigate volumes of irregular solids
  • Volume: Connect decimal representations to the metric system

Three-dimensional spatial structure B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-3DS-01

3D objects: Construct prisms and pyramids

Category:

  • 3-6
  • Mathematics (2022)
  • Represents numbers
  • Represents numbers using place value
  • Three-dimensional spatial structure
  • Unit

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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