AC9MFST01 Foundation Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

collect, sort and compare data represented by objects and images in response to given investigative questions that relate to familiar situations

Elaborations

• 1 collecting, and sorting data collected through everyday activities or events; for example, sorting toys into categories, such as “toys that move” and “toys that don’t move”
• 2 collecting and deciding how to organise data to answer “Yes/No” questions; for example, “Do more people in our class today have shoes with laces than without?”; explaining that lining up, and matching shoes with and without laces one-to-one will answer the question
• 3 creating classroom charts and rosters using stickers to represent data; comparing and interpreting representations
• 4 role-playing being a robot that sorts objects into groups based on a set of instructions; for example, imitating a robot designed to pack things away in the classroom or an industrial robot programmed to sort products on an assembly line by colour or shape
• 5 role-playing, as a class, at training an artificial intelligence system to recognise objects, asking yes/no questions to gather data to make the best guess about the identification of a mystery object
• 6 investigating statistical contexts after reading a story, such as "The Waterhole" by Graeme Base; asking and responding to questions like “What different animals did you see?”, “How many different types of animals were there?” or “Were there more tigers or kangaroos?”
• 7 exploring what and how information from the environment is collected and used by First Nations Australians to predict weather events

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