AC9M6N01 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.

recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane

Elaborations

• 1 extending the number line in the negative direction to locate and represent integers, recognising the difference in location between (-\(2\)) and (+\(2\)) and their relationship to zero as -\(2< 0< 2\)
• 2 using integers to represent quantities in financial contexts, including the concept of profit and loss for a planned event
• 3 using horizontal and vertical number lines to represent and find solutions to everyday problems involving locating and ordering integers around zero; for example, elevators, above and below sea level; distinguishing a location by referencing to the \(4\) quadrants of the Cartesian plane
• 4 recognising that the sign (positive or negative) indicates a direction in relation to zero; for example, \(30\) metres left of the admin block is (-\(30\)) and \(20\) metres right of the admin block is (+\(20\)); programming robots to move along a number line which is either horizontal or vertical but not both at the same time
• 5 representing the temperatures of the different planets in the solar system, using a diagram of a thermometer that models a vertical number line

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