AC9M2M02 – Year 2 Mathematics: null

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.

Elaborations

• • 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
• • 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
• • 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
• • 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
• • 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: