Odd or Even
Your child can tell if a group of up to 20 things is odd or even. They pair the items up and see if one is left over.
In curriculum terms
Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child has a group of 14 objects, can they tell you whether that number is odd or even — for example by pairing them up to see if any are left over?
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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 · 2 ACARA · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explain and use the properties of odd and even numbers
quantify sets of objects, to at least 120, by partitioning collections into equal groups using number knowledge and skip counting
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.