Year 9 Maths

The Australian Curriculum: Classroom Approaches mathematics units were originally designed to align with Version 3 of the Australian Curriculum (2012) but have recently been updated to align with Version 9 (2024). The four units provide adaptable and scalable learning pathways that can be shaped for use in diverse classroom contexts, and hopefully provide inspiration for locally developed units of work for other depth studies and areas of the curriculum. Click the "Download Year 9 Units" button to get a PDF of the units outlined below.

Year 9 Units Overview

UNIT ONE: BATTLESHIP

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematical models can be used to describe phenomena and enable predictions.

    • Mathematics plays an important role in other disciplines.

    • Coordinate geometry connects algebra to geometry through the graphs of lines and curves.

  • Performance Task: Individual instructions for manoeuvres for a game of battleship

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M9N01, AC9M9A01, AC9M9A02, AC9M9A03, AC9M9A04, AC9M9A05, AC9M9A06

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence

UNIT TWO: MAKING COMPARISONS

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics plays an important role in other disciplines.

    • Valid inferences can be drawn when data is displayed in an appropriate graph.

    • Measures of centre and spread allow us to compare data sets.

  • Performance Task: Pairs comparison of data from primary and secondary sources

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M9P01, AC9M9P02, AC9M9P03, AC9M9ST01, AC9M9ST02, AC9M9ST03, AC9M9ST04, AC9M9ST05

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence, Intercultural Understanding

UNIT THREE: SCALE IT DOWN

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics plays an important role in other disciplines.

    • Scale and ratio have applications to everyday problems involving length, area, and volume.

    • Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry are used to find information about angles and lengths.

  • Performance Task: Individual small house design

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M9M05, AC9M9M01, AC9M9M02, AC9M9M03, AC9M9M04, AC9M9SP01, AC9M9SP02, AC9M9SP03

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour, Intercultural Understanding

UNIT FOUR: TIME AND MONEY

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics plays an important role in other disciplines.

    • Scientific notation is used to express very large and very small numbers.

    • Simple or ‘flat’ interest calculations provide a useful approximation for short-term loans or investments.

  • Performance Task: Group animation

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M9M05, AC9M9M02, AC9M9N01, AC9M9A01, AC9M9A02, AC9M9A05

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence, Intercultural Understanding

Alternatively, if you prefer to create your own unit of work, please click the 'DIY Design Template' button below to download an attached Word document template.