What to expect at school
These guides describe what children learn in maths at school at each year level from Foundation to Year 10. They will give you some ideas for games and activities you can play at home to help your child learn.
Foundation to Year 6
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Foundation Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child learn the names of numbers and match numbers to collections of objects.
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Year 1 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child develop strategies to count and use objects to solve problems.
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Year 2 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child explore increasing and decreasing number patterns across a range of situations.
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Year 3 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child solve number problems by breaking up numbers and regrouping them to make new number sentences.
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Year 4 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child solve number problems by using addition, subtraction, familiar multiplication facts, and place value knowledge.
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Year 5 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child solve number problems with multiple steps, where they need to choose the most appropriate method to help them solve the problem.
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Year 6 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child use a range of approaches to solve number problems.
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Years 7-10
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Year 7 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child explore and solve number problems using multiplication and division with decimals, fractions and percentages.
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Year 8 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child use multiplication strategies to solve problems using fractions, decimals and percentages.
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Year 9 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child to use rational and irrational numbers to solve problems as well as variables and formulas.
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Year 10 Mathematics at school: what to expect
Use this guide to help your child to explain and justify their thinking and solution, and use deductive reasoning, theorems and algorithms.
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