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K–10Mathematics K–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Chance and probability
Recognise language of chance in everyday contexts
  • Identify events that are certain and uncertain

  • Use language of chance to indicate the likelihood of familiar events

Apply chance in everyday contexts
  • Determine the likelihood of an event

  • Predict the likelihood of a routine event

  • Predict the likelihood of a non-routine event

  • Order events according to their likelihood

Use chance and probability to reason in everyday contexts
  • Apply the element of chance to make decisions about familiar events

  • Recognise numerical values assigned to the probability of events occurring in everyday contexts

  • Conduct experiments to determine the probability of an outcome

  • Use knowledge of probability to make a prediction

  • Apply knowledge of chance and probability to justify a prediction

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