Operating with percentages description
This sub-element focuses on understanding the use of percentages in representing quantities. It begins with understanding the concept of a percentage, progresses through calculations of a percentage, finding a percentage change first through two steps …
Operating with percentages | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Additive strategies description
This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to choose and use additive computational strategies for different purposes. The transition from counting by one to more flexible methods of dealing with quantity, where numbers are treated …
Additive strategies | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
Understanding money description
The descriptive term decimal applied to money refers to the basic conversion units being multiples of ten. However, money is not a true decimal system. Amounts such as $2.99 are spoken as two whole numbers (2 dollars 99) and, due to the withdrawal of …
Understanding money | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
UnM7
Giving change uses complementary addition (the shopkeeper’s method of adding change to obtain the amount tendered) to determine the difference between two amounts, rounding as necessary
UnM7 | Understanding money | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
CoU2
Ratios interprets ratios as a comparison between the same units of measure (students to teachers in a school is 20:1) expresses a ratio as equivalent fractions or percentages (ratio 1:1, each part represents ½ or 50% of the whole) uses a ratio to …
CoU2 | Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
IRD5
Graphical representations of data uses graphical representations relevant to the purpose of the collection of the data uses features of graphical representations to make predictions recognises that continuous variables depicting growth or change …
IRD5 | Interpreting and representing data | Statistics and probability | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources