Algebraic thinking (8 lessons)
In this sequence of 8 lessons, students develop algebraic thinking by identifying patterns, writing rules, and designing algorithms to model them.
Additional details |
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model |
| Keywords | number patterns, summative assessment, algebraic thinking, algorithms |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Algebra |
| Topics | Algorithms, Computational thinking, Patterns and algebra |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6A03
Create and use algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that use rules to generate sets of numbers; identify, interpret and explain emerging patterns
AC9M6A01
Recognise and use rules that generate visually growing patterns and number patterns involving rational numbers |
| Numeracy progression |
Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P5)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Victoria State Government Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State Government of Victoria. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
