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• Mathematics: Level 4 achievement standards

  Number and Algebra

  Students recall multiplication facts to 10 x 10 and related division facts. They choose appropriate strategies for calculations involving multiplication and division, with and without the use of digital technology, and estimate answers accurately enough for the context. Students...

  Level description | Mathematics | Level 4

• Mathematics: Level 4 description

  In Level 4, students extend the number system to simple decimal fractions, and broaden their use of measures and scales.

  Students model, represent and order numbers to tens of thousands, and extend place value to tenths and hundredths. They investigate odd and even numbers and explore number patterns...

  Level description | Mathematics

• VCMMG173

  Create symmetrical patterns, pictures and shapes with and without digital technologies

  Elaborations

  • using stimulus materials such as the motifs in Central Asian textiles, Tibetan artefacts, Indian lotus designs and symmetry in Yolngu or Central and Western Desert art

  VCMMG173 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Location and transformation

• VCMMG172

  Use simple scales, legends and directions to interpret information contained in basic maps

  Elaborations

  • identifying the scale used on maps of cities and rural areas in Australia and a city in Indonesia and describing the difference
  • using directions to find features on a map

  VCMMG172 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Location and transformation

• VCMMG165

  Use scaled instruments to measure and compare lengths, masses, capacities and temperatures

  Elaborations

  • reading and interpreting, to the nearest graduation, the graduated scales on a range of measuring instruments

  VCMMG165 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCMMG174

  Compare angles and classify them as equal to, greater than or less than a right angle

  Elaborations

  • creating angles and comparing them to a right angle using digital technologies

  VCMMG174 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Geometric reasoning

• VCMMG168

  Use am and pm notation and solve simple time problems

  Elaborations

  • calculating the time spent at school during a normal school day
  • calculating the time required to travel between two locations
  • determining arrival time given departure time

  VCMMG168 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCMMG170

  Compare and describe two dimensional shapes that result from combining and splitting common shapes, with and without the use of digital technologies

  Elaborations

  • identifying common two-dimensional shapes that are part of a composite shape by re-creating it from these shapes
  • creating two-dimensional shapes from verbal or written instructions

  VCMMG170 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Shape

• VCMMG166

  Compare objects using familiar metric units of area and volume

  Elaborations

  • comparing areas using grid paper
  • comparing volume using centicubes
  • recognising that metric units are not the only units used throughout the world, for example measuring the area of floor space using tatami mats (Japan), using squares for room and house area (Australia)

  VCMMG166 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCMMG169

  Compare the areas of regular and irregular shapes by informal means

  Elaborations

  • comparing areas using metric units, such as counting the number of square centimetres required to cover two areas by overlaying the areas with a grid of centimetre squares

  VCMMG169 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Shape

• VCMMG167

  Convert between units of time

  Elaborations

  • identifying and using the correct operation for converting units of time

  VCMMG167 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCMMG171

  Explain and compare the geometric properties of two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects

  Elaborations

  • describing the similarities and differences between two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects
  • recognising two-dimensional shapes that are the faces for three-dimensional objects such as prisms, pyramids and platonic solids (including tetrahedrons, cubes and dodecahedrons)

  VCMMG171 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Measurement and Geometry | Shape

• VCMNA152

  Recognise, represent and order numbers to at least tens of thousands

  Elaborations

  • reproducing five-digit numbers in words using their numerical representations, and vice versa

  VCMNA152 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMNA154

  Investigate number sequences involving multiples of 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9

  Elaborations

  • recognising that number sequences can be extended indefinitely, and determining any patterns in the sequences

  VCMNA154 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMNA158

  Count by quarters, halves and thirds, including with mixed numerals. Locate and represent these fractions on a number line

  Elaborations

  • converting mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa
  • investigating the use of fractions and sharing as a way of managing Country: for example taking no more than half the eggs from a nest to protect future bird populations

  VCMNA158 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Fractions and decimals

• VCMNA159

  Recognise that the place value system can be extended to tenths and hundredths. Make connections between fractions and decimal notation

  Elaborations

  • using division by 10 to extend the place-value system
  • using knowledge of fractions to establish equivalences between fractions and decimal notation

  VCMNA159 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Fractions and decimals

• VCMNA153

  Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least tens of thousands to assist calculations and solve problems

  Elaborations

  • recognising and demonstrating that the place-value pattern is built on the operations of multiplication or division of tens

  VCMNA153 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMNA151

  Investigate and use the properties of odd and even numbers

  Elaborations

  • using the four operations with pairs of odd or even numbers or one odd and one even number, then using the relationships established to check the accuracy of calculations

  VCMNA151 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMNA157

  Investigate equivalent fractions used in contexts

  Elaborations

  • exploring the relationship between families of fractions (halves, quarters and eighths or thirds and sixths) by folding a series of paper strips to construct a fraction wall

  VCMNA157 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Fractions and decimals

• VCMNA156

  Develop efficient mental and written strategies and use appropriate digital technologies for multiplication and for division where there is no remainder

  Elaborations

  • using known facts and strategies, such as commutativity, doubling and halving for multiplication, and connecting division to multiplication when there is no remainder

  VCMNA156 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value