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