🌟 Overview
This page provides essential resources, worksheets, and video lessons to help students solve practical problems using mathematical modelling. Students will learn to interpret real-world situations, choose suitable strategies, write number sentences, and communicate answers clearly in context, fully aligned with Australian Curriculum outcome AC9M3N06.
📂 Subtopics Included
Includes engaging videos and worksheets for. Please click on the link to access the worksheets and videos for each subtopic:
✏️ Addition and Subtraction Word Problems – Bar Models Explained
🧩Equal Sharing & Division Word Problems – Year 3 Maths (Multiplication & Division Linked)
📚 Multiplication & Division Word Problems – Groups, Arrays & Sharing
📚 Curriculum Reference
This topic and its accompanying materials are aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics (Version 9.0).
Code: AC9M3N06 – Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts; formulate problems using number sentences and choose calculation strategies, using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation
🔗 Related Learning Areas
These topics work well alongside AC9M3N04:
- Place Value (AC9M3N01)
- Addition & Subtraction (AC9M3N03)
- Fractions(AC9M3N02)
- Multiplication & Division (AC9M3N04)
- Estimation (AC9M3N05)
📝 Helpful Tips
These practical activities are designed to support AC9M3N06:
- Understand the story first. Ask what the problem is about, what is known, and what needs to be found.
- Choose a model. Use bar models, drawings, counters, tables, or number sentences to represent the situation.
- Match the operation. Decide whether the situation needs addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
- Check reasonableness. Estimate the answer to see whether it makes sense in the context.
- Explain in words. Encourage students to write or say the final answer using the language of the problem, not just the numbers