Proportion
Your child knows the difference between direct and inverse proportion. More workers meaning fewer days to finish a job is inverse proportion.
In curriculum terms
Recognise and solve problems involving direct proportion (as one quantity increases, the other increases at a constant rate) and inverse proportion (as one increases, the other decreases), including graphical and algebraic representations
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Does your child understand the difference between quantities that grow together at the same rate (direct proportion) and ones where one goes up as the other goes down — like more workers meaning fewer days to finish a job (inverse proportion)?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits beyond Year 6 in the Australian Curriculum, so no F–6 code is matched. It also sits beyond the NSW K–6 syllabuses. It also sits beyond Level 6 in the Victorian Curriculum.