AC9M2M02 Year 2 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 2 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

identify common uses and represent halves, quarters and eighths in relation to shapes, objects and events

Elaborations

• 1 demonstrating how food items can be cut in halves, quarters or eighths; for example, cutting pizzas, slices, cakes or sandwiches into equal parts by halving, then halving again to form quarters and eighths, ensuring that the parts are equal
• 2 investigating cup and spoon measures used in cooking and discussing what half or quarter of a cup or tablespoon measure means, and using sand or water to compare these to the full cup and tablespoon measures
• 3 demonstrating and using halves and quarters in folding activities; for example, folding paper in half and quarters and ensuring that the pieces are the same size
• 4 recognising that halves and quarters can be used to describe lengths, positions and distances; for example, describing the halfway point in a race or instructing someone to stand halfway between the \(2\) chairs
• 5 discussing that halves and quarters are used to describe duration of time in sporting events, durations of time and what it means; for example, how the sirens used during an Australian Rules Football game represent quarters and half time during the game; recognising and using half or quarter of an hour to describe a duration of time

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