AC9M2M05 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, describe and demonstrate quarter, half, three-quarter and full measures of turn in everyday situations

Elaborations

• 1 identifying things that turn in the school environment; for example, the handle on a tap or a door, the dial or switch on a piece of equipment; identifying a half turn and a full turn, drawing a diagram and labelling it with arrows to show the direction and amount of turn
• 2 giving and following instructions to move during an activity; for example, demonstrating and describing half, quarter and full turns in a choreographed dance
• 3 investigating hands turning on a clock and relating quarter, half and full hours to angles and the language of clockwise or anti-clockwise
• 4 giving or following directions to locate an object in the room, or provide a pathway through a grid, such as programming a robot, referring to quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns

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