How can you tell they’ve got it: Systematic Listing?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: List all possible meal combinations from 3 starters and 4 mains; Organise combinations into a systematic table to ensure none are missed; Explain why the total number of combinations equals the product of the options in each category. Or just try it together: If your child can choose any combination of 3 T-shirt colours and 2 trouser colours, can they list every possible outfit without missing any or repeating?

Mathematics Algebra Ages 10–11

Systematic Listing

Your child can list every combination without missing any. With 3 T-shirts and 2 trousers, they find all 6 outfits.

In curriculum terms

Enumerate possibilities of combinations of two variables systematically (e.g. all ways to choose from a set of options)

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How to tell they’ve got it

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List all possible meal combinations from 3 starters and 4 mains
Organise combinations into a systematic table to ensure none are missed
Explain why the total number of combinations equals the product of the options in each category

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Try this together

If your child can choose any combination of 3 T-shirt colours and 2 trouser colours, can they list every possible outfit without missing any or repeating?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Long multiplicationages 10–11Systematic enumeration connects to multiplicative reasoning (product of options)

Systematic Listingthis skill · ages 10–11

Unlocks

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solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

Nearby on the map

Equations with Two Unknownsages 10–11 Linear number sequencesages 10–11 Number Pattern Relationshipsages 10–11 Using Simple Formulaeages 10–11

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