AC9M7N03 Year 7 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

represent natural numbers in expanded notation using place value and powers of 10

Elaborations

• 1 investigating exponent notation for powers of \(10\) such as “one hundred thousand” is \(100 000=10×10×10×10×10=10^5\)
• 2 relating the sequences \(10, 100, 1000, 10 000\) … and \(10^1\), \(10^2\), \(10^3\), \(10^4\) ...
• 3 applying and explaining the connections between place value and expanded notations; for example, \(7000=7×10^3\) and \(3750=3×10^3+7×10^2+5×10^1\)

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