Stage 3, mathematics, Year A – Unit 11
This 2-week, Year A unit develops the big idea that the number system extends infinitely to very large and very small numbers.
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:
- read, rename, represent and order numbers up to and including billions
- interpret, compare, order and represent decimals up to thousandths
- use informal written strategies like the area model to represent and solve division problems involving whole number remainders.
Represents numbers A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RN-01, MA3-RN-02
- Whole numbers: Recognise, represent and order numbers in the millions
- Whole numbers: Apply place value to partition, regroup and rename numbers to 1 billion
- 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
Multiplicative relations A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-MR-01
- Determine products and factors
- Use partitioning and place value to multiply 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers by one-digit numbers
- Select and apply mental and written strategies to multiply 2- and 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
- Represent and solve division problems with whole number remainders
- Select and apply strategies to divide a number with 3 or more digits by a one-digit divisor
- Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations