AC9M6A01
Official content description
recognise and use rules that generate visually growing patterns and number patterns involving rational numbers
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What Year 6 Maths students should achieve
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- They solve problems using the properties of prime, composite and square numbers.
- Students locate an ordered pair in any one of the 4 quadrants on the Cartesian plane.
- They use all 4 operations with decimals and connect decimal representations of measurements to the metric system.
- Students conduct simulations using digital tools, to generate and record the outcomes from many trials of a chance experiment.
- They create tessellating patterns using combinations of transformations.
- Students critique arguments presented in the media based on statistics.
The Algebra progression either side of AC9M6A01
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Taught before · Year 5
Builds towards · Year 7
- AC9M7A01recognise and use variables to represent everyday formulas algebraically and substitute values into formulas to determine an unknown
- AC9M7A02formulate algebraic expressions using constants, variables, operations and brackets
- AC9M7A03solve one-variable linear equations with natural number solutions; verify the solution by substitution
Other Year 6 Algebra codes
- AC9M6A02find unknown values in numerical equations involving brackets and combinations of arithmetic operations, using the properties of numbers and operations
- AC9M6A03create and use algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that use rules to generate sets of numbers; identify, interpret and explain emerging patterns
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