11–12Mathematics Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus

Respond to language relating to time

Recognise and use language that relates to time

Identify and order days of the week, months of the year and seasons

Recognise units of time and common abbreviations: seconds (secs or s), minutes (mins or min), hours (hrs or h)

Order units of time

Recognise equivalent units of time

Convert between units of time

Describe everyday activities using appropriate units of time

Identify devices commonly used to measure time

Estimate and measure the passage of time

Distinguish between morning and afternoon or ‘am’ and ‘pm’

Identify what day or time of day different activities will occur

Sequence activities and events

Associate personal activities and events with times

Communicate dates for events of personal significance

Create a personal schedule by ordering daily activities according to the time of day and how long they will take

Use a calendar to record and plan personal events

Use and interpret time to plan activities

Make decisions about activities using knowledge of time

Estimate and calculate the duration of an activity

Use timetables to calculate and make decisions about time

Read and relate times on digital or analog clocks

Relate ‘hour’, ‘half hour’, ‘half past’, ‘quarter to’ and ‘quarter past’ to a variety of contexts

Draw correlations between time in digital or analog formats

Recognise 24-hour time using four digits

Relate 24-hour times to their equivalent am or pm times

Read and interpret timetables in a range of formats and contexts, including in timetables that use 24-hour time

Investigate and calculate travel times

Solve problems involving time in everyday contexts

Identify different time zones within Australia and other countries

Tell the current time in other time zones

Explain the effect of daylight saving on local time

Use time zones to make decisions

Recognise 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes found in the built and natural environment

Describe attributes of 2-dimensional shapes using informal and formal language

Sort and match shapes based on the number of sides or corners

Match the number of sides and corners to the same shape or representations

Estimate and measure angles of 2-dimensional shapes

Make representations of 2-dimensional shapes to show the placement of objects in relation to one another

Solve problems involving 2-dimensional shapes

Recognise tessellations and the shapes involved

Create tessellations using different methods

Identify attributes of common 3-dimensional shapes

Describe attributes of common 3-dimensional shapes using informal and formal language

Sort 3-dimensional objects based on attributes

Construct 3-dimensional shapes

Solve problems involving 3-dimensional shapes in real-world contexts

Recognise and use language that relates to length

Recognise the metric units of length and their abbreviations: millimetre (mm), centimetre (cm), metre (m) and kilometre (km)

Estimate and measure a length using informal and formal units

Recognise equivalent units of length

Convert between metric units of length

Compare the accuracy of using different measuring devices

Explore ways to measure longer distances

Solve problems involving length in real-world contexts

Estimate and calculate the perimeter of 2-dimensional shapes

Calculate perimeter by adding together the side lengths

Solve problems involving perimeter in real-world contexts

Recognise and use language that relates to area

Estimate, calculate and compare area using informal and formal units

Calculate areas of squares and rectangles

Investigate surface area through practical activities

Use a formula to calculate areas

Calculate area in everyday contexts

Calculate the surface area of a 3-dimensional shape by adding the areas of the faces

Solve problems involving area and surface area in real-world contexts

Recognise and use language that relates to volume

Describe the volume of 3-dimensional shapes using everyday language

Estimate, measure and compare the volume of 3-dimensional shapes

Calculate the volume of a range of shapes

Construct 3-dimensional shapes of a given volume

Solve problems involving volume in real-world contexts

Explain the differences in dimensional nature of length, area and volume

Recognise and use language that relates to capacity

Recognise the metric units of capacity and their abbreviations: millilitres (mL) and litres (L)

Identify devices used to measure capacity

Examine the relationship between volume and capacity

Estimate and compare capacities

Measure capacity using informal and formal units

Recognise equivalent units of capacity

Use a range of devices to estimate and measure capacity

Measure capacity to a given degree of accuracy

Solve problems involving capacity in real-world contexts

Recognise and use language that relates to mass

Recognise the metric units of mass and their abbreviations: gram (g), kilogram (kg) and tonne (t)

Identify devices used to measure mass

Estimate and measure mass

Recognise equivalent units of mass

Compare mass using informal and formal units to solve problems in everyday contexts

Explore the relationship between mass and volume

Solve problems involving mass in real-world contexts

Recognise and use language that relates to temperature

Identify devices used to measure temperature

Describe situations in which temperatures are important

Estimate and measure temperatures

Record and interpret temperatures to the nearest degree Celsius

Calculate the difference between two temperatures

Apply knowledge of temperature to make decisions or judgements

Solve problems involving temperature in real-world contexts

Recognise and use language that relates to energy

Recognise units of energy and their abbreviations used in relation to household energy, including watts (W) and kilowatts (kW)

Describe consumption of electricity in a home

Solve problems involving energy in real-world contexts