Efficient strategies: Year 4 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 4 is for the topic of Efficient strategies. Students develop efficient strategies and use appropriate digital tools for solving problems involving addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division where there is no remainder. They choose and use estimation and rounding to check and explain the reasonableness of calculations.
Additional details |
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| Year level(s) | Year 4 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Number |
| Topics | Multiplication and division, Addition and subtraction |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M4N06
Develop efficient strategies and use appropriate digital tools for solving problems involving addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division where there is no remainder
AC9M4N07
Choose and use estimation and rounding to check and explain the reasonableness of calculations including the results of financial transactions |
| Numeracy progression |
Number and place value (P7)
Additive strategies (P8) Multiplicative strategies (P7) |
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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