Understanding Year 6 Maths Advanced: Australian Curriculum
Edition
Brand New Condition
This book should prove to be an invaluable teaching aid for
teachers, coaches and tutorial centers, because it thoroughly summarises the 10
major topics which are the basis of the Australian Curriculum.
It will be very beneficial to parents, because it will provide them with a
very structured and clear idea of the core syllabus, and what their children
should know by the end of Grade 5. If their child has a particular problem (say
on adding fractions) it is very easy to find the page and explanations relating
to that idea – and hence help their child.
Most important of all, it will prove to be an excellent reference for
students of all ability groups. The user friendly format and layout makes it
very much faster for a pupil to thoroughly master one major topic in a
relatively short period of time, because it is so easy to see how each idea is
linked to the previous one. It has all the rules and corresponding examples
clearly set out topic by topic, page by page. In addition it teaches the pupils
to read explanations, as well as to look back and research similar problems.
And of course the graded exercises at the end of each topic chapter will help
students of all abilities to practise and apply their knowledge. It is so easy
for students to work through the book by themselves with the minimum of
supervision and help.
This advanced edition of Understanding Maths Year 6 provides
graded exercises that will test student of most ability groups, and in many of
the chapters, will extend and challenge more gifted students.
The questions are graded into levels of difficulty:
Easier questions: These Level 1 (and sometimes
Level 2) questions are intended to build confidence and follow the format of
the examples.
Average questions: Level 2 & 3 questions are
of average difficulty level, and give all students (weak, average & gifted)
a good opportunity to practice and consolidate the ideas and rules given
throughout most of the chapter. All students should try to complete and
understand questions in the first three levels.
Harder questions: These questions are more
difficult as they involve larger numbers, and some of the more difficult ideas
in the related topic. Reference pages numbers and not included so that students
learn to search through the chapter for the relevant information.
Problem solving: This more difficult level has
been included to challenge those students who are more gifted at Maths. Usually
the questions are more sentence and problem oriented, and therefore they
involve more reading and comprehension skills. It is unlikely that any of the
questions in this level can be done mentally, because several different ideas,
rules or steps are usually required.
Contents
Introduction
Number & Algebra
Number and Place Value
Fractions and Decimals – Part 1
Fractions and Decimals – Part 2
Money and Financial Mathematics
Patterns and Algebra
Measurement & Geometry
Using Units of Measurement
Shape
Location and Transformation
Geometric Reasoning
Statistics & Probability
Chance
Data Representation and Interpretation
Solutions to Graded Exercises