Halves and quarters (age 7+)
Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately
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If your child has 2 quarters, 1 dime, and 3 pennies, can they work out the total — and tell you whether that's enough to buy something costing 65 cents?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise the relationships between dollars and cents and represent money values in different ways
recognise and describe one-half as one of 2 equal parts of a whole and connect halves, quarters and eighths through repeated halving
identify common uses and represent halves, quarters and eighths in relation to shapes, objects and events
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.