ACMNA177

Extend and apply the laws and properties of arithmetic to algebraic terms and expressions

Elaborations

• identifying order of operations in contextualised problems, preserving the order by inserting brackets in numerical expressions, then recognising how order is preserved by convention (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• moving fluently between algebraic and word representations as descriptions of the same situation (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

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