Mathematics – Stage 1 – Year A – Unit 20

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills that problems can be solved and represented in different ways.

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.

Students are provided opportunities to:

  • solve modelled problems concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to help develop fluency
  • count and order a collection of items
  • place numbers accurately on a number line
  • use symbols to represent a story.

Syllabus focus and content group

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

  • Use counting sequences of ones with two-digit numbers and beyond
  • Continue and create number patterns
  • Represent numbers on a line

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

  • Use counting sequences of ones and tens flexibly
  • Form, regroup and rename three-digit numbers

Combining and separating quantities A – MAO-WM-01, MA1-CSQ-01

  • Use flexible strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems

Combining and separating quantities B – MAO-WM-01, MA1-CSQ-01

  • Represent and reason about additive relations

Forming groups A – MAO-WM-01, MA1-FG-01

  • Model and use equal groups of objects to represent multiplication
  • Recognise and represent division

Forming groups B – MAO-WM-01, MA1-FG-01

  • Represent multiplication and division problems

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

  • Time: Describe duration using units of time

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