AC9M8N04 Year 8 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

use the 4 operations with integers and with rational numbers, choosing and using efficient strategies and digital tools where appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 using patterns to assist in establishing the rules for the multiplication and division of integers
• 2 applying and explaining efficient strategies such as using the commutative or associative property for regrouping, partitioning, place value, patterning, multiplication or division facts to solve problems involving positive and negative integers, fractions and decimals
• 3 recognising the effect of sign in the multiplication of integers; for example, (-\(1)^4\;=\;1\) and (-\(1)^5\;=\) -\(1\)

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