Estimation and reasonableness: Year 7 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 7 is for the topic of Estimation and reasonableness. Students round decimals to a specified number of decimal places and connect the process of rounding up or down to prior experiences in rounding.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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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 |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Number |
| Topics | Estimation |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7N05
Round decimals to a given accuracy appropriate to the context and use appropriate rounding and estimation to check the reasonableness of solutions |
| Numeracy progression |
Number and place value (P9)
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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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