Ratio (age 11+)
Use conventional notation for the priority of operations including brackets, powers, roots, and reciprocals; apply BIDMAS/BODMAS consistently to evaluate complex numerical expressions
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Can your child evaluate a complex expression like '5 + 2³ ÷ 4' correctly — applying the right order of operations, handling the power before the division and division before the addition?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
find unknown values in numerical equations involving brackets and combinations of arithmetic operations, using the properties of numbers and operations
compare and order fractions with the same and related denominators including mixed numerals, applying knowledge of factors and multiples; represent these fractions on a number line
recognise and explain the connection between multiplication and division as inverse operations and use this to develop families of number facts
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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.