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Algebraic reasoning and algorithmic thinking (8 lessons)

In this sequence of 8 lessons, students link multiplication and division as inverse operations, solve unknowns, apply properties, test divisibility, and use algorithms.

Additional details
Year level(s) Year 5
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Explicit teaching, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Worked examples
Keywords inverse, operations, unknowns, number properties, algorithms, divisibility rules, summative assessment

Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Number, Algebra
Topics Computational thinking, Algorithms, Multiples, factors and powers
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M5N10

Create and use algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions and digital tools to experiment with factors, multiples and divisibility; identify, interpret and describe emerging patterns


AC9M5N06
Solve problems involving multiplication of larger numbers by one- or two-digit numbers, choosing efficient calculation strategies and using digital tools where appropriate; check the reasonableness of answers

AC9M5N02
Express natural numbers as products of their factors, recognise multiples and determine if one number is divisible by another
Numeracy progression Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P5)

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Victoria State Government Department of Education
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