Sign Rules for Multiplication
Multiply and divide with positive and negative integers and rational numbers, understanding the rules for the sign of the product or quotient
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If your child knows that a negative times a negative makes a positive, can they use that rule to work out calculations like '−3 × −4 = 12' — and explain why it makes sense?
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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 and explain the connection between multiplication and division as inverse operations and use this to develop families of number facts
recognise and use rules that generate visually growing patterns and number patterns involving rational numbers
express natural numbers as products of their factors, recognise multiples and determine if one number is divisible by another
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.