Year Six Inquiry Resources
Select a strand from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, below.
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
Food for thought: Do Primary students eat nutritious breakfast cereals?
In this unit, students explore the nutritional value of a variety of cereals and investigate whether the most popular cereals are actually nutritious.
Links to Australian Curriculum: Mathematics:
Year 5: ACMNA105, ACMSP118, ACMSP119, ACMSP120 Year 6: ACMNA131, ACMMG135, ACMSP147 Year 7: ACMNA157, ACMNA158, ACMSP169 For formative assessment prompts and Our Marking Guide for summative assessment, please log in to the Member section.
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MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY
Pyramids in a Box: What is the best box to hold 2 different sized items that are packaged as pyramids?
The inquiry is stimulated by a question about posting gifts and helps students build understanding of constructing and manipulating three-dimensional prisms and pyramids. They construct prisms and pyramids from nets, and iteratively refine the design of the packing box (of any shape) until it has a minimal amount of unused space.
The guided mathematical inquiry unit, Pyramids in a Box: What is the best box to hold 2 different sized items that are packaged as pyramids?, and the description above, can be found at the reSolve: Maths by Inquiry website.
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Little Boxes: What is the most suitable way to package four small boxes?
Food for thought: Do Primary students eat nutritious breakfast cereals?
In this unit, students explore the nutritional value of a variety of cereals and investigate whether the most popular cereals are actually nutritious.
Links to Australian Curriculum: Mathematics:
Year 5: ACMNA105, ACMSP118, ACMSP119, ACMSP120 Year 6: ACMNA131, ACMMG135, ACMSP147 Year 7: ACMNA157, ACMNA158, ACMSP169 For formative assessment prompts and Our Marking Guide for summative assessment, please log in to the Member section.
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STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Biased Bingo: What bingo card would give me the best chance of winning?
Food for thought: Do Primary students eat nutritious breakfast cereals?
In this unit, students explore the nutritional value of a variety of cereals and investigate whether the most popular cereals are actually nutritious.
Links to Australian Curriculum: Mathematics:
Year 5: ACMNA105, ACMSP118, ACMSP119, ACMSP120 Year 6: ACMNA131, ACMMG135, ACMSP147 Year 7: ACMNA157, AMNA158, ACMSP169 For formative assessment prompts and Our Marking Guide for summative assessment, please log in to the Member section.
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You may also be interested in other inquiries from the Thinking through Mathematics series, Book 3 (Ages 10-13)The following titles are available on the Free Resources page:
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Fight for Flight: What is the best design for a loopy aeroplane? In this unit, students combine knowledge of the principles of flight with the technology process to determine the most effective design for a loopy aeroplane.
Record Breaking: Are Athletes getting better over time? In this unit, students will focus on sporting records and performance and consider factors that have had an impact on athletes' performance over time.
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- Walking School Bus: What is the best walking school bus route in our school catchment area? In this unit students devise a walking school bus route and timetable that is appropriate for their school catchment area.
- Take or Make: How expensive is takeaway food? In this unit, students combine their familiarity with takeaway food menus to determine how expensive takeaway food actually is.
- My Space: What's the best way to arrange our classroom? In this unit, students design a classroom arrangement that best meets the needs of the class.
- Growing Up: How much do we grow in primary school? In this unit, students compare data sets to identify how much a typical student grows during their primary years of schooling.
- Positive and negative integers: What is the best game that you can create to model positive and negative integers? This inquiry has students investigating everyday situations that use integers. Students locate and represent these numbers on a number line.