Maths Practice at Home, Foundation to Year 6: A Guide for Australian Families

Primary maths in Australia follows the Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0), or a state syllabus built on it. The big ideas build steadily from Foundation to Year 6, and short, regular practice at home helps them stick.

How the years build

• Foundation to Year 2: counting and place value, adding and subtracting, early multiplication as equal groups, halves and quarters, time and money.
• Years 3 and 4: multiplication facts, larger numbers, fractions and decimals, measurement, and reading data.
• Years 5 and 6: multi-digit multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages, angles, the coordinate plane and chance.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN numeracy tests run in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. They reward number sense and reading a problem carefully more than speed alone, so mix calculation practice with word problems and data questions.

Ten minutes a day

1. Start with the free placement check.
2. Practise one skill on maths practice for Australia, with Australian year names, dollars and spelling.
3. Read a passage from reading for Australia, including ones about the platypus, kangaroo and Fiona Wood’s spray-on skin.

Scores run from 0 to 100, every miss is explained, and My progress keeps track.