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K–10Mathematics K–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2024
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Stage 1

Forming groups B
Represent and explain multiplication as the combining of equal groups
  • Use Loading , diagrams, images or actions to model multiplication as accumulating equal groups

  • Solve multiplication problems using Loading 

  • Form Loading  of equal rows and equal columns

  • Determine and distinguish between the number of rows/columns and the number in each row/column when describing collections of objects

  • Model the Loading  of multiplication, using an array (Reasons about relations)

  • Model division by deconstructing an array equally into a given number of rows or columns

Model doubling and halving with fractions
  • Model Loading  groups and the relation between the processes

  • Re-create the whole given half

  • Use concrete materials to model a half, a quarter or an eighth of a collection, and explain their thinking

Represent multiplication and division problems
  • Solve multiplication and division problems using objects, diagrams, images and actions

  • Record answers to multiplication and division problems (including those with Loading ) using drawings, words and numerals

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