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K–10Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2022)

Implementation from 2024
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Stage 3

Multiplicative relations A
Determine products and factors
  • Use the term product to describe the result of multiplying 2 or more numbers

  • Model different ways to show a whole number as a product (Reasons about structure)

  • Determine factors for a given whole number

  • Determine whether a number is prime, Loading  or neither (0 or 1)

Use partitioning and place value to multiply 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers by one-digit numbers
  • Use mental strategies to multiply one-digit numbers by 10, 100, 1000 and their Loading 

  • Estimate the product of 2 numbers (one-digit by 2- or 3-digit numbers) using multiples of 10 or 100

  • Use informal written strategies such as the area model to solve multiplication and division problems

  • Use the distributive property with the area model to Loading  numbers in representing multiplication problems

  • Use the distributive property with partial products to solve problems by multiplying the hundreds, then the tens and then the ones

  • Record the product of multiplying by a one-digit number using a formal algorithm

Select and apply mental and written strategies to multiply 2- and 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
  • Loading  numbers to aid mental multiplication

  • Extend the area model to represent 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication

  • Use a multiplication algorithm with understanding (Reasons about relations)

  • Solve multiplication word problems

Represent and solve division problems with whole number remainders
  • Model division, including where the answer involves a Loading , using materials or diagrams

  • Record remainders in words to division problems

  • Use known multiplication fact families to solve division problems for which answers may include a remainder

  • Use the term Loading  to describe the result of a division calculation

  • Show the connection between division and multiplication involving the divisor and quotient

Select and apply strategies to divide a number with 3 or more digits by a one-digit divisor
  • Estimate the result of dividing by a one-digit divisor

  • Use knowledge of multiples to partition as appropriate and divide

  • Apply and record appropriate strategies to solve division word problems

  • Use and interpret remainders in solutions to division problems

  • Use digital technologies to divide whole numbers by one- and 2-digit divisors

Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations
  • Use estimation to check the reasonableness of answers to multiplication and division calculations

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