Direct and indirect comparisons: Year 1– planning tool
This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Direct and indirect comparisons. Students are introduced to measurement through direct and indirect comparison.
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| Year level(s) | Year 1 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks |
| Format | Web page |
| Keywords | lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions, informal measurement |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M1M01
Compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding units of measurement (P2, P3)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Copyright | © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated |
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