🌟 Overview
Explore real-life maths problems in Year 2 using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and calendar skills. Students learn how to model everyday situations (shopping, sharing, grouping, and time), explain their thinking, and choose a strategy that helps them solve each question.
They build confidence with money totals, finding change, equal groups, arrays, sharing into equal parts, grouping into sets, and counting days, weeks, and months. Students also learn how maths helps them solve problems at home, at school, and in the community.
📂 Subtopics Included
Includes engaging videos and worksheets for. Please click on the link to access the worksheets and videos for each subtopic:
| Step | Lesson | What You Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🪙 Real-Life Money Problems: Addition and Subtraction | Solve shopping and money problems using addition and subtraction. Make totals, find change, and write number sentences such as $5 + $3 = $8 or $10 − $6 = $4. Use play money, price tags and bar models to show the problem |
| 2 | 🛒 Real-Life Multiplication and Division Problems | Solve problems involving equal groups, arrays, sharing and grouping. Write multiplication and division number sentences such as 4 × $3 = $12 or 12 ÷ 3 = 4. Connect to related facts and use counters or coins to model the situation |
📚 Curriculum Reference
This topic and its worksheets are aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics (Version 9.0).
Code: AC9M2N06 – Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations, including money transactions; represent situations and choose calculation strategies; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation.
🔗 Related Learning Areas
These topics work well alongside AC9M2N06:
- 🔢 Recognise, Represent and Order Numbers to 1000 (AC9M2N01)
- 🔟 Partition, Rearrange, Regroup and Rename Two- and Three-Digit Numbers (AC9M2N02)
- ➕ Addition & Subtraction(AC9M2N04)
- 🧩 Multiplication & Division(AC9M2N05)
- 📈 Additive Number Patterns and Missing Numbers (AC9M2A01)
- ✖️ Multiplication and Division: Doubling and Halving (AC9M2A03)
📝 Helpful Tips
- Teach children that different strategies can help with different questions:
- Make a total: Add prices together using known facts or place value (e.g., $5 + $3 = $8)
- Find change: Subtract the cost from the amount paid (e.g., $10 − $6 = $4)
- Equal groups: Use skip counting or repeated addition for multiplication (e.g., 4 × $3 = $3 + $3 + $3 + $3)
- Sharing: Divide by sharing one-by-one into equal parts (e.g., 12 cookies ÷ 3 friends = 4 each)
- Grouping: Divide by making groups of a certain size (e.g., 12 cookies, 3 per bag = 4 bags)
- Connect multiplication and division:
- Use the same array or equal groups to show 3 × 4 = 12, 4 × 3 = 12, 12 ÷ 3 = 4 and 12 ÷ 4 = 3
- Show that division is the reverse of multiplication
- Use bar models and drawings to help children visualise word problems before writing number sentences. Draw the money, groups, or calendar to show what is happening in the story.