Primary Mathematics Syllabus 2007

Whole Numbers

1. Numbers up to 1000
   • counting in tens / hundreds
   • number notation and place values (hundreds, tens, ones)
   • reading and writing numbers in numerals and in words
   • comparing and ordering numbers
   • number patterns
2. Addition And Subtraction
   • addition and subtraction of numbers up to 3 digits
   • solving up to 2-step word problems involving addition and subtraction
3. Multiplication and division
   • building up the multiplication tables of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 and committing to memory
   • use of the division symbol (÷) to write a mathematical statement for a given situation
   • recognising the relationship between multiplication and division
   • multiplication and division within the multiplication tables
   • solving 1-step word problems involving multiplication and division within the multiplication tables
   • Exclude:
     • division with remainder
4. Mental calculation
   • addition and subtraction involving
     • a 3-digit number and ones
     • a 3-digit number and tens
     • a 3-digit number and hundreds
   • multiplication and division within the multiplication tables of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10

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Fractions

1. Fraction of a whole
   • interpretation of fraction as part of a whole
   • reading and writing fractions
   • comparing and ordering
     • unit fractions
     • like fractions
   • (Denominators of given fractions should not exceed 12)
   • Exclude:
     • fraction of a set of objects
2. Addition And Subtraction
   • addition and subtraction of like fractions within one whole
   • (Denominators of given fractions should not exceed 12)

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Measurement

1. Length, mass and volume
   • estimation and measurement of
     • length in metres / centimetres
     • mass in kilograms / grams
     • volume of liquid in litres
   • drawing a straight line of given length
   • use of the appropriate measures and their abbreviations cm, m, g, kg,
   • comparing
     • lengths
     • masses
     • volumes
   • solving word problems involving length / mass / volume
   • Exclude:
     • conversion of units
     • measurement in compound units
     • capacity of container
     • volume of solid
2. Time
   • telling and writing time to 5 minutes
   • use of ‘a.m.’ and ‘p.m.’
   • use of abbreviations h and min
   • drawing hands on the clock face to show time
   • duration of one hour / half hour from an o’clock time
   • Exclude:
     • finding the duration of a time interval
3. Money
   • counting the amount of money in a given set of notes and coins
   • reading and writing money in decimal notation
   • comparing two or three amounts of money
   converting an amount of money in decimal notation to cents only, and vice versa
   • solving word problems involving money in dollars only (or in cents only)

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Geometry

1. 2-D and 3-D figures
   • identifying, naming and describing
     • semicircle
     • quarter circle
   • identifying the basic shapes that make up a given figure
   • forming different 2-D figures with cut-outs of
     • rectangle
     • square
     • triangle
     • semicircle
     • quarter circle
   • forming different 3-D figures with concrete models of
     • cube
     • cuboid
     • cone
     • cylinder
   • copying figures on dot grid or square grid
2. Patterns
   • making/completing patterns with 2-D cut-outs according to one or two of the following attributes
     • shape
     • size
     • orientation
     • colour
3. Line, curve and surface
   • identifying lines (straight lines) and curves
   • identifying flat faces of a 3-D object

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Data Analysis

1. Picture graphs
   • making picture graphs with scales
   • reading and interpreting picture graphs with scales
   • solving problems using information presented in picture graphs
   • Exclude:
     • use of an incomplete symbol/picture

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