Content description VC2M5N09

Mathematics Version 2.0 / Level 5 / Number

Content description

use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations, including simple financial planning contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient mental and written calculation strategies, and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation

Elaborations

modelling an everyday situation and determining which operations can be used to solve it using materials, diagrams, arrays and/or bar models to represent the problem; formulating the situation as a number sentence; and justifying their choice of operations in relation to the situation
modelling a series of contextual problems, deciding whether an exact answer or an approximate calculation is appropriate, and explaining their reasoning in relation to the context and the numbers involved
modelling financial situations such as creating financial plans; for example, creating a budget for a class fundraising event, using a spreadsheet to tabulate data and perform calculations
investigating how mathematical models involving combinations of operations can be used to represent songs, stories and/or dances of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Code

VC2M5N09

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