Adding and subtracting (age 9+)
Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
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If your child is given a multi-step problem — like planning a budget where money is added and spent in several steps — can they decide which operations to use at each stage and explain their thinking?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
extend and apply knowledge of addition and subtraction facts to 20 to develop efficient mental strategies for computation with larger numbers without a calculator
solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators, using different strategies
recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations, apply to partition numbers and find unknown values in number sentences
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.