AC9M6M01 Year 6 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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.

convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem

Elaborations

• 1 recognising the significance of the prefixes in units of measurement
• 2 identifying and using the correct operations when converting between units including millimetres, centimetres, metres, kilometres, milligrams, grams, kilograms, tonnes, millilitres, litres, kilolitres and megalitres
• 3 recognising the equivalence of measurements, such as \(1.25\) metres is the same as \(125\) centimetres

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