AC9M5ST03 Year 5 Mathematics

AC9M5ST03 – Year 5 Mathematics: null

Strand

Statistics

Substrand

Statistics

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

Content Descriptor

plan and conduct statistical investigations by posing questions or identifying a problem and collecting relevant data; choose appropriate displays and interpret the data; communicate findings within the context of the investigation

Elaborations

• posing questions about insect diversity in the playground, collecting data by taping a one-metre-square piece of paper to the playground, and observing the type and number of insects on it over time
• posing a question or identifying a problem of interest, collecting, interpreting and analysing the data and discussing if the data generated provides the information necessary to answer the questions
• developing survey questions that are objective, without opinion and have a balanced set of answer choices without bias
• exploring First Nations Ranger Groups’ and other groups’ biodiversity detection techniques to care for Country/Place, posing investigative questions, collecting and interpreting related data to represent and communicate findings

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASMATY5

Year 5 Mathematics Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 5, students use place value to write and order decimals including decimals greater than one. They express natural numbers as products of factors and identify multiples. Students order and represent add and subtract fractions with the same or related denominators. They represent common percentages and connect them to their fraction and decimal equivalents. Students use their proficiency with multiplication facts and efficient calculation strategies to multiply large numbers by one- and two-digit numbers and divide by single-digit numbers. They check the reasonableness of their calculations using estimation. Students use mathematical modelling to solve financial and other practical problems, formulating and solving problems, choosing arithmetic operations and interpreting results in terms of the situation. They apply properties of numbers and operations to find unknown values in numerical equations involving multiplication and division. Students create and use algorithms to identify and explain patterns in the factors and multiples of numbers. They choose and use appropriate metric units to measure the attributes of length, mass and capacity, and to solve problems involving perimeter and area. Students convert between 12- and 24-hour time. They estimate, construct and measure angles in degrees. Students use grid coordinates to locate and move positions. They connect objects to their two-dimensional nets. Students perform and describe the results of transformations and identify any symmetries. They plan and conduct statistical investigations that collect nominal and ordinal categorical and discrete numerical data using digital tools. Students identify the mode and interpret the shape of distributions of data in context. They interpret and compare data represented in line graphs. Students conduct repeated chance experiments, list the possible outcomes, estimate likelihoods and make comparisons between those with and without equally likely outcomes.