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• Mathematics | Mathematics: Rationale and Aims

  The VCAA has published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
  
  Go to the VCAA website to explore the timeline for familiarisation and implementation of...

  Overview material | Mathematics

• Mathematics: Level D description

  In Level D, students actively use concrete models to represent number in various situations, and use number names when comparing, counting, ordering, adding to or taking away from sets of one to five objects.

  They form the initial terms of basic patterns and identify and sequence regular daily...

  Level description | Mathematics

• VCMMG197

  Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them

  Elaborations

  • investigating the ways time was and is measured in different Aboriginal Country, such as using tidal change
  • using units hours, minutes and seconds

  VCMMG197 | Mathematics | Level 5 | Measurement and Geometry | Using units of measurement

• VCMNA211

  Compare fractions with related denominators and locate and represent them on a number line

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating equivalence between fractions using drawings and models

  VCMNA211 | Mathematics | Level 6 | Number and Algebra | Fractions and decimals

• VCMNA252

  Create algebraic expressions and evaluate them by substituting a given value for each variable

  Elaborations

  • using authentic formulas to perform substitutions

  VCMNA252 | Mathematics | Level 7 | Number and Algebra | Patterns and algebra

• VCMNA187

  Compare and order common unit fractions and locate and represent them on a number line

  Elaborations

  • recognising the connection between the order of unit fractions and their denominators

  VCMNA187 | Mathematics | Level 5 | Number and Algebra | Fractions and decimals

• VCMNA181

  Identify and describe factors and multiples of whole numbers and use them to solve problems

  Elaborations

  • exploring factors and multiples using number sequences
  • using simple divisibility tests

  VCMNA181 | Mathematics | Level 5 | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• VCMSP128

  Create displays of data using lists, table and picture graphs and interpret them

  Elaborations

  • creating picture graphs to represent data using one-to-one correspondence
  • comparing the usefulness of different data displays

  VCMSP128 | Mathematics | Level 2 | Statistics and Probability | Data representation and interpretation

• VCMSP350

  Construct and interpret box plots and use them to compare data sets

  Elaborations

  • understanding that box plots are an efficient and common way of representing and summarising data and can facilitate comparisons between data sets
  • using parallel box plots to compare data about the age distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with that of the Australian population as a whole

  VCMSP350 | Mathematics | Level 10 | Statistics and Probability | Data representation and interpretation

• Mathematics | Mathematics: Learning in Mathematics

  The proficiencies of Understanding, Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning are fundamental to learning mathematics and working mathematically and are applied across all three strands Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.

  Understanding refers to students...

  Overview material | Mathematics

• VCMMG121

  Describe the features of three-dimensional objects

  Elaborations

  • identifying geometric features such as the number of faces, corners or edges

  VCMMG121 | Mathematics | Level 2 | Measurement and Geometry | Shape

• VCMMG368

  Use the unit circle to define trigonometric functions as functions of a real variable, and graph them with and without the use of digital technologies

  Elaborations

  • establishing the symmetrical properties of trigonometric functions
  • investigating angles of any magnitude
  • understanding that trigonometric functions are periodic and that this can be used to describe motion
  • identifying points on the unit circle via arc lengths in radians, which correspond to specified values of the circular functions sine, cosine and tangent

  VCMMG368 | Mathematics | Level 10A | Measurement and Geometry | Pythagoras and trigonometry

• 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

• VCMNA164

  Define a simple class of problems and solve them using an effective algorithm that involves a short sequence of steps and decisions

  Elaborations

  • constructing and applying an algorithm for multiplication of two-digit numbers
  • partitioning and ordering a set of Australian coins by denomination

  VCMNA164 | Mathematics | Level 4 | Number and Algebra | Patterns and algebra

• VCMNA307

  Apply set structures to solve real-world problems

  Elaborations

  • using a sort algorithm to determine the median of a set of numbers
  • exploring variation in proportion and means of random samples, drawn from a population

  VCMNA307 | Mathematics | Level 9 | Number and Algebra | Patterns and algebra

• VCMNA092

  Recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value

  Elaborations

  • showing that coins are different in other countries by comparing Asian coins to Australian coins
  • understanding that the value of Australian coins is not related to size
  • describing the features of coins that make it possible to identify them

  VCMNA092 | Mathematics | Level 1 | Number and Algebra | Money and financial mathematics

• VCMSP100

  Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’

  Elaborations

  • justifying that some events are certain or impossible

  VCMSP100 | Mathematics | Level 1 | Statistics and Probability | Chance

• Mathematics: Level 7 description

  In Level 7, students work with powers of whole numbers, use index notation, represent numbers as products of powers of prime numbers, and investigate square roots of perfect squares. They use number properties to assist with calculation and order, and to add and subtract integers. Students find...

  Level description | Mathematics

• VCMNA334

  Implement algorithms using data structures in a general-purpose programming language

  Elaborations

  • using two-dimensional arrays such as matrices to represent and implement sequences of transformations of sets of points in the plane
  • using pointers in algorithms

  VCMNA334 | Mathematics | Level 10 | Number and Algebra | Patterns and algebra

• VCMMG142

  Make models of three-dimensional objects and describe key features

  Elaborations

  • exploring the creation of three-dimensional objects, including prisms and pyramids, using origami

  VCMMG142 | Mathematics | Level 3 | Measurement and Geometry | Shape