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K–10Mathematics K–10 Syllabus

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Implementation for K–2 from 2023 and 3–10 from 2024
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Stage 5

Area and surface area A
Solve problems involving areas and surface areas
  • Solve practical problems involving the areas of composite shapes

  • Identify the edge lengths and the faces making up the surface area of prisms

  • Recognise and justify whether a diagram represents a net of a right prism

  • Create and rearrange nets of right prisms

  • Find the surface areas of prisms, given their nets, excluding curved surfaces

  • Solve problems involving surface areas of prisms, excluding curved surfaces

Develop and apply the formula for surface areas of cylinders
  • Recognise the curved surface of a cylinder as a rectangle and apply this knowledge to calculate the area of the curved surface

Solve problems involving surface areas of cylinders and related composite solids
  • Solve problems involving surface areas of cylinders and related composite solids

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