Multi-age K–2, mathematics, Year B – Unit 18

This two-week unit develops student understanding of data and chance, and their interconnectedness.

Syllabus

Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from the 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:

  • investigate topics of interest by choosing suitable questions to collect, display and interpret relevant data
  • identify misleading data (Stage 1 students)
  • learn the names and order of days of the week (Early Stage 1 students)
  • learn the order of seasons and months of the year and how to use a Gregorian calendar (Stage 1 students)
  • use data with language to reason about possible outcomes in familiar activities (Stage 1 students).

Syllabus focus and content groups

Representing whole numbers – MAO-WM-01, MAE-RWN-01, MAE-RWN-02

  • Instantly name the number of objects within small collections
  • Use the counting sequence of ones flexibly
  • Recognise number patterns
  • Connect counting and numerals to quantities

Non-spatial measure – MAO-WM-01, MAE-NSM-01, MAE-NSM-02

Time: Connect days of the week to familiar events and actions

Data – MAO-WM-01, MAE-DATA-01

  • Respond to questions, collect information and discuss possible outcomes of activities
  • Organise objects into simple data displays and interpret the displays

Representing whole numbers – MAO-WM-01, MA1-RWN-01, MA1-RWN-02

  • Part A – Continue and create number patterns
  • Part B – Form, regroup and rename three-digit numbers

Non-spatial measure – MAO-WM-01, MA1-NSM-01, MA1-NSM-02

Time: Name and order the cycle of months

Data – MAO-WM-01, MA1-DATA-01, MA1-DATA-02

  • Part A – Ask questions and gather data
  • Part A – Represent data with objects and drawings and describe the displays
  • Part B – Create displays of data and interpret them

Chance – MAO-WM-01, MA1-CHAN-01

  • Part A – Identify and describe possible outcomes
  • Part A – Identify and describe activities that involve chance

Category:

  • Chance
  • Data
  • K-2
  • Mathematics (2022)
  • Non-spatial measure
  • Representing whole numbers
  • Unit

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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