Multi-Step Multiply & Divide
Your child can solve scaling problems. If a recipe for 4 people needs 3 eggs, they work out that 8 people need 6 eggs.
In curriculum terms
Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling problems and correspondence problems where n objects are connected to m objects
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Try this together
If a recipe for 4 people needs 3 eggs, can your child work out how many eggs are needed for 8 people — recognising it as a doubling or scaling problem?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
develop efficient strategies and use appropriate digital tools for solving problems involving addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division where there is no remainder
recall and demonstrate proficiency with multiplication facts up to 10 x 10 and related division facts; extend and apply facts to develop efficient mental strategies for computation with larger numbers without a calculator
multiply and divide one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences, diagrams and arrays, and using a variety of calculation strategies
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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.