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reSolve: Authentic problems – 10,000 centicubes
This sequence of four lessons integrates content in number and measurement to deepen students' understanding and confidence working with larger numbers. Students work flexibly with numbers up to 10,000 as they determine suitable dimensions for a container that can hold 10,000 centicubes. They are challenged to plan, construct and justify their ideal container. The unit also provides opportunities for building the concepts of informal and formal units of volume. Each lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, sample answers, discussion points and student resources. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry special topic 'Authentic Problems'.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number Measurement
- Topic
- Multiplication and division Mass and capacity
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P8) Number and place value (P7) Multiplicative strategies (P7)
- Publisher
- reSolve Maths by Inquiry
- Copyright
- © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- fraction place value decimal mathematical investigation
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