Sal's Secret (unit of work)

Learning area: Mathematics

Content descriptions

Strand: Number and Algebra

• Sub-strand: Number and place value
  
  • Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least 10 000 to assist calculations and solve problems (ACMNA053)
  • Recall addition facts for single-digit numbers and related subtraction facts to develop increasingly efficient mental strategies for computation (ACMNA055)
  • Represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies (ACMNA057)
• Sub-strand: Money and financial mathematics
  • Represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents (ACMNA059)

Strand: Statistics and Probability

• Sub-strand: Data representation and interpretation
  • Collect data, organise into categories and create displays using lists, tables, picture graphs and simple column graphs, with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMSP069)

Learning area: English

Content descriptions

Strand: Literacy

• Sub-strand: Interacting with others
  
  • Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in collaborative situations (ACELY1676)
  • Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792)

Level 3: Typically, by the end of Year 4, students:

• Literacy:
  • listen to spoken instructions with some detail for undertaking learning area tasks, listen to identify key information in spoken and multimodal texts and respond to texts read aloud
  • interpret literal information and make inferences to expand topic knowledge using comprehension strategies
  • use pair, group and class discussions about learning area topics as learning tools to explore and represent ideas and relationships, test possibilities and to prepare for creating texts
• Numeracy:
  • estimate a solution to a problem and then check the solution by recalling addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts
  • estimate the change from simple purchases
• ICT
  • locate, retrieve or generate information from a range of digital sources
  • create and modify simple digital solutions, creative outputs or data representation/ transformation for particular purpose
• Creative and Critical Thinking
  • reflect on, explain and check the processes used to come to conclusions
  • transfer and apply information in one setting to enrich another
• Personal and Social Capability
  • persist with tasks when faced with challenges and adapt their approach where first attempts are not successful