A Ten Is Ten Ones
Understand that 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a 'ten'
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Can your child explain that ten single objects bundled together make 'one ten' — and that this is why we write 10 with a 1 in the tens place and a 0 in the ones place?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 2 NSW · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
partition one- and two-digit numbers in different ways using physical and virtual materials, including partitioning two-digit numbers into tens and ones
recognise, represent and order natural numbers using naming and writing conventions for numerals beyond 10 000
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.