Alice Springs School of the Air
The Alice Springs School of the Air (ASSOA) is based in Alice Springs and broadcasts to children in isolated communities through a 1.3 million square km 'classroom', throughout Northern Territory and parts of South Australia and Western Australia. At …
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Brighton Primary School
Brighton Primary School is a large school incorporating a centre for the hearing-impaired. At the time of filming, there were 619 students at the school. The additional language at the school is Auslan. The school’s vision statement is: ‘Engage, imagine, …
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Career education: linking learning with local industry
This illustration of practice highlights how Crystal Brook Primary School and Gladstone High School designed a career education program that provided students with the opportunity to develop general capabilities. The schools worked in partnership as they …
Career education: linking learning with local industry | Illustrations of practice | General capabilities and career education | Resources
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) description
This sub-element addresses comparing units in ratios, rates and proportions. A ratio describes a situation in comparative terms, and a proportion is taken to mean when this comparison is used to describe a related situation in the same comparative terms. …
Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Consumer and financial literacy
Consumer and financial literacy | Portfolios | Curriculum connections | Resources
CoU1
Building ratios uses knowledge of fractions as part-whole relationships to divide and compare quantities represents and models ratios using diagrams or objects (in a ratio 1:4 of red to blue counters, for each red counter there are four blue coun …
CoU1 | Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
CoU2
Ratios interprets ratios as a comparison between the same units of measure (students to teachers in a school is 20:1) expresses a ratio as equivalent fractions or percentages (ratio 1:1, each part represents ½ or 50% of the whole) uses a ratio to …
CoU2 | Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
CoU3
Applying proportion interprets proportion as the equality of two ratios or rates uses common fractions and decimals for proportional division demonstrates how increasing one quantity in a ratio will affect the total proportion performs operations …
CoU3 | Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10)
Typically by the end of Year 10, students: Identify and clarify information and ideas clarify complex information and ideas drawn from a range of sources Organise and process information critically analyse independently sourced information to determine …
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10) | Digital media literacy | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10)
Typically by the end of Year 10, students: Identify and clarify information and ideas clarify complex information and ideas drawn from a range of sources Organise and process information critically analyse independently sourced information to determine …
Critical and Creative Thinking - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10) | Informed and safe use of information and devices | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Food and fibre
Food and fibre | Portfolios | Curriculum connections | Resources
Food and wellbeing
Food and wellbeing | Portfolios | Curriculum connections | Resources
How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum?
Numeracy skills are explicit teaching in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Students need opportunities to recognise that mathematics is constantly used outside the mathematics classroom and that numerate people apply general mathematical skills …
How is the numeracy progression related to the Australian Curriculum? | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Interpreting fractions description
This sub-element emphasises the development of the fraction concept and the size of fractions rather than the development of procedures or algorithmic skills. Understanding the size of a fraction is an indicator of the depth of a student’s understanding …
Interpreting fractions | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Mathematics - Year 7
Number and place value Apply the associative, commutative and distributive laws to aid mental and written computation (ACMNA151) Compare, order, add and subtract integers (ACMNA280) Real numbers Multiply and divide fractions and decimals using efficient …
Mathematics - Year 7 | Competencies and skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Mathematics - Year 8
Number and place value Carry out the four operations with rational numbers and integers, using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies (ACMNA183) Real numbers Solve problems involving the use of percentages, including …
Mathematics - Year 8 | Competencies and skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Mathematics - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Statistics and probability Data representation and interpretation Content descriptions with elaborations: Identify and investigate issues involving numerical data collected from primary and secondary sources (ACMSP169) obtaining secondary …
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Mathematics: Number lines/Science: Energy transfer
Clifford Park Special School upholds the strong belief that all students can learn, and that they should have equitable access to the Australian Curriculum. The school provides educational programs for secondary students with disability. A supportive …
Mathematics: Number lines/Science: Energy transfer | Illustrations of practice | Student diversity | Resources
Numeracy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Understand and use numbers in context compare, order and use positive and negative numbers to solve everyday problems Interpret proportional reasoning visualise and describe the proportions of percentages, …
Numeracy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Knowledge and understanding | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Numeracy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Estimate and calculate solve complex problems by estimating and calculating using efficient mental, written and digital strategies Use money identify and justify ‘best value for money’ decisions Recognise …
Numeracy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Competencies and skills | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources