AC9M7N07 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.

compare, order and solve problems involving addition and subtraction of integers

Elaborations

• 1 using less-than and greater-than notation in expressions when comparing and ordering integers; for example, negative \(5\) is less than positive \(2\) and can be represented as \((\)-\(5)\leq(\)+\(2);\;(\)-\(3)\geq(\)-\(6)\)
• 2 discussing language such as “addition”, “subtraction”, “magnitude”, “difference”, “sign” and synonyms of these terms
• 3 ordering, adding and subtracting integers using a number line

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