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Four operations: advanced strategies

This guide provides a sequence of small steps starting with a recap of different addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies before moving onto factors, multiples, long division, primes to 100, and more.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching
Keywords	area model, factors, multiples, common factors, common multiples, prime numbers, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Addition and subtraction, Multiplication and division, Multiples, factors and powers, Operating with number, Place value
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMNA073 Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least tens of thousands to assist calculations and solve problems ACMNA100 Solve problems involving multiplication of large numbers by one- or two-digit numbers using efficient mental, written strategies and appropriate digital technologies ACMNA101 Solve problems involving division by a one digit number, including those that result in a remainder ACMNA291 Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems ACMNA122 Identify and describe properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers ACMNA123 Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers ACMNA124 Investigate everyday situations that use integers. Locate and represent these numbers on a number line
National numeracy learning progression	Additive strategies - AdS8 Multiplicative strategies - MuS6, MuS7
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