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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.

Area
Recognise features of an object associated with area
  • Identify language of area

  • Recognise that area is the space taken up by a flat shape or surface

Estimate and measure area in informal and formal units
  • Use informal units to estimate and calculate area

  • Recognise appropriate formal units for measuring area, including their abbreviations

  • Use formal units and tools for measuring area

  • Calculate area in everyday contexts

Apply knowledge of estimating and measuring area to solve problems
  • Estimate areas to solve problems

  • Apply knowledge of area to solve problems

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