Number and proportion

Calculate with signed numbers, powers, ratios and percentages, then apply proportion, map scales and average rates in G1 Mathematics.

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Signed numbers and rational calculation

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Calculate with signed numbers, powers, ratios and percentages, then apply proportion, map scales and average rates in G1 Mathematics.

Learning goals
  • Calculate with integers and rational numbers
  • Compare and order numbers and representations
  • Identify primes, factors and multiples
  • Round a signed decimal to a stated number of decimal places
  • Round a nonzero number to a stated number of significant figures
  • Estimate a four-operation calculation by rounding its inputs first
  • Round, estimate and judge numerical accuracy
  • Evaluate rational numerical expressions with nonnegative integer powers and signed bases
  • Write a positive finite decimal in normalized standard form
  • Interpret integer power notation
  • Express a ratio part as a fraction of the whole
  • Share a quantity in a specified ratio
  • Represent and simplify ratios of quantities
  • Relate part-to-part ratios to part-to-whole fractions
  • Simplify a two- or three-term ratio of rational quantities
  • Interpret a percentage relative to its base
  • Express one quantity as a percentage of another, including above 100%
  • Find a quantity after a stated percentage increase or decrease
  • Recover a quantity before a stated percentage increase or decrease
  • Find an increase as a percentage of the original
  • Find a decrease as a percentage of the original
  • Recover a whole or original amount from a percentage part
  • Calculate percentage changes and contextual amounts
  • Construct a direct-proportion expression from positive paired data and predict a new value
  • Construct an inverse-proportion expression from positive paired data and predict a new value
  • Model and solve direct or inverse proportional relationships
  • Calculate corresponding map and ground distances with compatible units
  • Calculate corresponding map and ground areas using the squared length scale
  • Determine a map's 1-to-n length scale from corresponding distances
  • Calculate average speed from all distances and elapsed times of a multi-stage journey
  • Convert speeds between kilometres per hour, metres per minute, metres per second and centimetres per second
  • Calculate the average rate of a quantity over several stages, including pauses and stages given as rates
  • Use rate, speed, distance and time relationships
  • Convert compatible measurement units
Syllabus statements covered
  • Negative numbers and primes (exclude prime factorisation)
  • Integers and their four operations
  • Four operations on fractions and decimals (including negative fractions and decimals)
  • Calculations with calculator, including squares, cubes, square roots and cube roots
  • Representation and ordering of numbers on the number line
  • Use of <, >, ⩽, ⩾
  • Approximation and estimation (including rounding off numbers to a required number of decimal places or significant figures and estimating the results of computation)
  • Use of index notation for integer powers
  • Use of standard form A × 10^n, where n is an integer, and 1 ⩽ A < 10
  • Comparison between two or more quantities by ratio
  • Dividing a quantity in a given ratio
  • Ratios involving fractions and decimals
  • Equivalent ratios
  • Writing a ratio in its simplest form
  • Map scales (distance and area)
  • Direct and inverse proportion
  • Expressing percentage as a fraction or decimal
  • Finding the whole given a percentage part
  • Expressing one quantity as a percentage of another
  • Comparing two quantities by percentage
  • Percentages greater than 100%
  • Finding one quantity given the percentage and the other quantity
  • Increasing/decreasing a quantity by a given percentage
  • Finding percentage increase/decrease
  • Rates and average rates (including the concepts of speed and average speed)
  • Conversion of units (e.g. km/h to m/s)
  • Negative numbers and primes (exclude prime factorisation)
  • Integers and their four operations
  • Four operations on fractions and decimals (including negative fractions and decimals)
  • Calculations with calculator, including squares, cubes, square roots and cube roots
  • Representation and ordering of numbers on the number line
  • Use of <, >, ≤, ≥
  • Approximation and estimation (including rounding off numbers to a required number of decimal places or significant figures and estimating the results of computation)
  • Comparison between two or more quantities by ratio
  • Dividing a quantity in a given ratio
  • Ratios involving fractions and decimals
  • Equivalent ratios
  • Writing a ratio in its simplest form
  • Expressing percentage as a fraction or decimal
  • Finding the whole given a percentage part
  • Expressing one quantity as a percentage of another
  • Comparing two quantities by percentage
  • Percentages greater than 100%
  • Finding one quantity given the percentage and the other quantity
  • Increasing/decreasing a quantity by a given percentage
  • Finding percentage increase/decrease
  • Direct and inverse proportion
  • Rates and average rates (including the concepts of speed and average speed)
  • Conversion of units (e.g. km/h to m/s)
  • Use of index notation for integer powers
  • Use of standard form A × 10^n , where n is an integer, and 1 ≤ A < 10
  • Map scales (distance and area)

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