NSW Mathematics Syllabus — Level 2
In the NSW Mathematics K–10 syllabus, Stage 1 covers Levels 1 and 2. This page shows Level 2 first; see also Level 1. Each NESA content heading below lists the Maths Builder content, e-Text pages and worksheets that teach it.
Number and algebra
Representing whole numbers A
Whole numbers to 120 and beyond2 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 23, Ordinals: 2
Level 1 e-Text pages: 1-3, 10, 26-29, 34, 42-46, 51-53, Ordinals: 5, 48-49, 108 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Language Cards 1:01 — Language cards
- Language Cards 1:02 — What might happen tomorrow?
- Language Cards 1:03 — A dictionary of position words 1
- Language Cards 1:04 — A dictionary of position words 2
- Language Cards 1:05 — Position around the table
- Language Cards 2:01 — Language cards
- Language Cards 2:02 — What might happen tomorrow?
- Language Cards 2:03 — A dictionary of position words 1
- Language Cards 2:04 — A dictionary of position words 2
- Fun and Games 1:01 — Numbers to 18
- Fun and Games 1:02 — Make shapes dot-to-dot
- Fun and Games 1:03 — First to finish
- Fun and Games 1:04 — Even number hunt
- Fun and Games 1:05 — Odd or even?
- Fun and Games 1:06 — Odd or even winner
- Fun and Games 1:07 — Colour by shape/Adding and subtracting
- Fun and Games 1:08 — Bigger numbers
- Fun and Games 1:09 — Shapes and patterns
- Fun and Games 1:10 — Add it up
- Fun and Games 1:11 — Number Bingo
- Fun and Games 1:12 — Adding to 4
- Fun and Games 1:13 — Odd fun
- Fun and Games 1:14 — Blocked out
- Fun and Games 1:15 — That's Impossible
- Fun and Games 1:16 — Likely roll
- Fun and Games 1:17 — Even hide
- Fun and Games 1:18 — Work me out
- Fun and Games 1:19 — Kite patterns
- Fun and Games 1:20 — Tangrams
- Fun and Games 1:21 — Side hide
- Fun and Games 1:22 — Continuous line
- Fun and Games 1:23 — Rainbows and raindrops
- Fun and Games 1:24 — All sevens
- Fun and Games 1:25 — It's 8
- Fun and Games 1:26 — Count my features
- Fun and Games 1:27 — What number am i?
- Fun and Games 1:28 — The wrong way
- Fun and Games 1:29 — Snail trail
- Fun and Games 1:30 — Add a card
- Fun and Games 1:31 — Ten total
- Fun and Games 1:32 — Add and subtract
- Fun and Games 1:33 — Important things you should know
- Fun and Games 2:01 — It's even
- Fun and Games 2:02 — Smallest and largest numbers
- Fun and Games 2:03 — Caterpillar rules
- Fun and Games 2:04 — Castle climb
- Fun and Games 2:05 — Four in a row
- Fun and Games 2:06 — Code cracker
- Fun and Games 2:07 — Total colour
- Fun and Games 2:08 — Pick a number
- Fun and Games 2:09 — Match making
- Fun and Games 2:10 — Magic squares
- Fun and Games 2:11 — Rows and columns
- Fun and Games 2:12 — Tangrams
- Fun and Games 2:13 — Total success
- Fun and Games 2:14 — Choosing numbers
- Fun and Games 2:15 — Colour code
- Fun and Games 2:16 — Painting the castle
- Fun and Games 2:17 — Make a dozen
- Fun and Games 2:18 — Cover up
- Fun and Games 2:19 — Odds and evens race
- Fun and Games 2:20 — Balloon race
- Fun and Games 2:21 — Using the dots
- Fun and Games 2:22 — Make 15
- Fun and Games 2:23 — Tangrams
- Fun and Games 2:24 — Score a century
- Fun and Games 2:25 — 3-digit juggle
- Fun and Games 2:26 — Balloon race
- Fun and Games 2:27 — Coloured answers
- Fun and Games 2:28 — Maze
- Fun and Games 2:29 — Find your way
- Fun and Games 2:30 — Card count
- Fun and Games 2:31 — What's wrong?
- Fun and Games 2:32 — Number disguise
- Fun and Games 2:33 — Important things you should know.
- Concept Dictionary – Whole Numbers
- Cards and boards 1:04 — Larger number cards
- Cards and boards 1:05 — Larger number cards
- Other resources 1:01 — Fifty chart
- Other resources 1:02 — Numeral expanders
Alan’s note: Language Cards: 1:01-1:05, 2:01-2:04, Fun and Games: 1:01-1:33, 2:01-2:33, Concept Dictionary: Whole Numbers, Cards and boards: 1:04-1:05 (Larger number cards), Other Resources: 1:01 (Fifty chart),1:02 (Numeral expanders)
Patterns: Number patterns, odd and even, multiples of 102 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 21, 23
Level 1 e-Text pages: 4, 6-7, 30-33, 50 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Patterns and Algebra
Number linesLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 12, 17, 32, 42, 46 · Level 1 syllabus
Representing whole numbers B
Whole numbers: 2- and 3-digit numbers, counting by 10s to 3 digits, money24 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 1, 20-24, 30, 47-50, 60-63, 67-69, 79 Money: 3-5, 31-32
- 2:NA01Tens and ones
- 2:NA20Counting on the number line
- 2:NA21Counting by 2s, 5s and 10s
- 2:NA22Skip counting by 3s, 4s and 6s
- 2:NA23Counting numbers to 100
- 2:NA24Sequences on a number chart
- 2:NA30Adding and subtracting tens
- 2:NA47Using blocks to make 1000
- 2:NA48Making numbers to 1000
- 2:NA49Grouping in hundreds
- 2:NA50Place value in 3-digit numbers
- 2:NA60Grouping in hundreds
- 2:NA61Grouping and partitioning numbers
- 2:NA62Counting using 3-digit numbers
- 2:NA633-digit numbers
- 2:NA67Counting using 3-digit numbers
- 2:NA683-digit numbers
- 2:NA69Counting by 2s, 5s and 10s to 1000
- 2:NA79Rounding to the nearest 100
- 2:NA03Money
- 2:NA04Money
- 2:NA05Money: equivalent values
- 2:NA31Using money
- 2:NA32Money
Level 1 e-Text pages: Money: 37-39, 47 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Cards and boards 1:06 — Money and Base 10 blocks cards
- Cards and boards 2:04 — Number cards and place value cards
- Cards and boards 2:05 — Number cards: representing larger numbers
- Cards and boards 2:06 — Number cards: representing larger numbers
- Cards and boards 2:07 — Money cards
- Other resources 1:03 — Australian coins
- Other resources 1:04 — Australian notes
Alan’s note: Money: (e-Text K p 56), Cards and boards: 1:06 (Money), Cards and boards: 2:04-2:07 (Number cards), Other Resources: 1:03-1:04 (Money),
Place value, Base 10 blocks6 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 1-2, 47-50
- 2:NA01Tens and ones
- 2:NA02Ordinals and numbers
- 2:NA47Using blocks to make 1000
- 2:NA48Making numbers to 1000
- 2:NA49Grouping in hundreds
- 2:NA50Place value in 3-digit numbers
Level 1 e-Text pages: 26-27, 43-45, 51 · Level 1 syllabus
Combining and separating quantities A
Addition/subtraction: number sentences, symbols used3 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 6, 8, 33
Level 1 e-Text pages: Addition: 8-12, 20-21, 54, 56-59, 65-67, 71, Subtraction: 13-19, 55-58, 67, 71 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Concept Dictionary - Addition and Subtraction
- Charts and Mindmaps 1:07 — Important things you should know
- Other resources 1:06 — Addition webs
- Other resources 1:07 — Subtraction webs
- Other resources 1:08 — Blank webs
- Other resources 1:09 — Do you know your number facts?
- Other resources 1:10 — Harder number facts
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Addition and Subtraction, Charts and Mindmaps: 1:07 (Important things you should know), Other resources: 1:06-1:08 (Addition/subtraction webs), 1:09-1:10 (Number facts)
Addition facts to 10, friends of 109 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 6-7, 13, 15-17, 33, 42-43
- 2:NA06Making 10
- 2:NA07Addition and subtraction/10 frame
- 2:NA13Addition on the number line
- 2:NA15Addition
- 2:NA16Doubles
- 2:NA17Doubling
- 2:NA33Addition
- 2:NA42Relating addition and subtraction
- 2:NA43Addition and subtraction
Level 1 e-Text pages: 12, 21, 54, 58 · Level 1 syllabus
Strategies and related problems, equalities13 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 13, 17, 33, 35-36, 51-52, 54, 70-74
- 2:NA13Addition on the number line
- 2:NA17Doubling
- 2:NA33Addition
- 2:NA35How many at the start?
- 2:NA36Using number sentences
- 2:NA51Doubling and near doubling
- 2:NA52Using strategies
- 2:NA54Addition strategies
- 2:NA70Building to 10s
- 2:NA71Using partitioning strategies
- 2:NA72Addition using the jump strategy
- 2:NA73Subtraction using the jump strategy
- 2:NA74The split strategy
Level 1 e-Text pages: 10, 56, 72 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources: Working mathematically: (e-Text 2 p150)
Combining and separating quantities B
Addition/subtraction: addition facts to 20, relating + and –25 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: Addition: 5-8, 13, 15-17, 30, 33, 40-43, 51-52, 70-72, 74-75, Subtraction: 7-8, 14, 30, 40-43, 52, 73-74, 76-77
- 2:NA05Money: equivalent values
- 2:NA06Making 10
- 2:NA07Addition and subtraction/10 frame
- 2:NA08Addition and subtraction/20 frame
- 2:NA13Addition on the number line
- 2:NA15Addition
- 2:NA16Doubles
- 2:NA17Doubling
- 2:NA30Adding and subtracting tens
- 2:NA33Addition
- 2:NA40Counting back
- 2:NA41Subtraction
- 2:NA42Relating addition and subtraction
- 2:NA43Addition and subtraction
- 2:NA51Doubling and near doubling
- 2:NA52Using strategies
- 2:NA70Building to 10s
- 2:NA71Using partitioning strategies
- 2:NA72Addition using the jump strategy
- 2:NA74The split strategy
- 2:NA75Addition with trading
- 2:NA14Subtraction on the number line
- 2:NA73Subtraction using the jump strategy
- 2:NA76Subtraction with trading
- 2:NA77Subtraction using addition
Other resources
- Other resources 2:05 — Addition webs
- Other resources 2:06 — Subtraction webs
- Other resources 2:07 — Blank webs
- Other resources 2:08 — Do you know your number facts?
- Other resources 2:09 — Harder number facts
Alan’s note: Maths Builder homepage: addition facts (3:plus 1 up to 3:plusten, 3:plusA, 3:plus B, 3:S1, 3:S2, 3:S3) These drill addition and subtraction facts to 20.) Other resources: 2:05-2:08 (Addition webs/Subtraction webs/Blank webs.Do you know your number facts), Other resources: 2:08-2:09 (Number facts)
+ and – of two-digit numbers5 worksheets
Related problems6 worksheets
Forming groups A
Patterns/algebra: Skip counting by 2, 5 and 10 to form patterns4 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 20-22, 69
- 2:NA20Counting on the number line
- 2:NA21Counting by 2s, 5s and 10s
- 2:NA22Skip counting by 3s, 4s and 6s
- 2:NA69Counting by 2s, 5s and 10s to 1000
Level 1 e-Text pages: 30-33, 35-36, 62-63 · Level 1 syllabus
Multiplication: Multiplication, equal groups4 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 16-19
Level 1 e-Text pages: 59-61, 64, 70 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Multiplication and Division
Division: sharing and grouping9 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 25-29, 56-59
- 2:NA25Halves and quarters
- 2:NA26Quarters of collections
- 2:NA27Sharing collections
- 2:NA28Division by sharing
- 2:NA29Sharing with remainders
- 2:NA56Making groups
- 2:NA57Division using repeated subtraction
- 2:NA58Grouping
- 2:NA59Using division
Level 1 e-Text pages: 23-25, 68-70 · Level 1 syllabus
Forming groups B
Multiplication/division: equal groups, arrays, number lines14 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 16-19, 22, 25-29, 37-39, 78
- 2:NA16Doubles
- 2:NA17Doubling
- 2:NA18Using groups
- 2:NA19Repeated addition/multiplication
- 2:NA22Skip counting by 3s, 4s and 6s
- 2:NA25Halves and quarters
- 2:NA26Quarters of collections
- 2:NA27Sharing collections
- 2:NA28Division by sharing
- 2:NA29Sharing with remainders
- 2:NA37Multiplication
- 2:NA38Multiplication
- 2:NA39Multiplication using arrays
- 2:NA78Dividing using the number line
Other resources: Multiplication: (e-Text 3 p 63)
Fractions: doubling and halving,3 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 12, 16-17
Level 1 e-Text pages: 23-25, 59 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, Fractions: (e-Text 2 pp 9-12, 25-26, 44-46)
x and ÷ problems, remainders5 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 28-29, 44-45, 81
Measurement and space
Geometric measure A
Position: position, following directions2 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 85, 135
Level 1 e-Text pages: 73-75, 116 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Concept Dictionary - Position (Direction and Coordinates)
- Language Cards 1:03 — A dictionary of position words 1
- Language Cards 1:04 — A dictionary of position words 2
- Language Cards 1:05 — Position around the table
- Other resources 1:16 — The language of position
- Other resources 1:17 — A dictionary of position words 1
- Other resources 1:18 — A dictionary of position words 2
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Position (Direction and coordinates), Language cards: 1:03, 1:04, 1:05, Other resources: 1:16-1:18 (The language of position)
Length: informal units, comparing, subdividing1 worksheet
Level 2 e-Text pages: 87
Level 1 e-Text pages: 76-77, 86, 109-111 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Length, Charts and Mindmaps: 1:01 (Length)
Geometric measure B
Position: simple maps5 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 84-85, 135-137
- 2:MG03Position
- 2:MG04Left/right
- 2:MG54Finding a way - direction
- 2:MG55Finding a path
- 2:MG56Drawing the sketch of a model
Level 1 e-Text pages: 116 · Level 1 syllabus
Length: informal and formal units, ‘m’ and ‘cm’, halves, quarters and eighths of a length7 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 46, 86-89, 118-119
- 2:NA46More fractions
- 2:MG05Comparing lengths
- 2:MG06Measuring length
- 2:MG07Measuring curves
- 2:MG08Making a measure
- 2:MG37The metre
- 2:MG38The metre
Other resources
Alan’s note: Charts and Mindmaps: 2:01 (Length)
Two-dimensional spatial structure A
2D space: shapes and their features, slides, reflections and symmetry4 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: Symmetry, slides and refections: 90-92, 131,
Level 1 e-Text pages: 90-92, 95-97, 115 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Concept Dictionary - 2D Space
- Charts and Mindmaps 2:07 — Shapes around the clock
- Charts and Mindmaps 2:08 — Important things you should know
- Cards and boards 1:09 — 2D shapes cards
- Other resources 1:15 — 2D shapes
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: 2D space, Charts and Mindmaps: 2:07-2:08 (Shapes around the clock/Important things you should know), Cards and Boards: 1:09 (2D shapes), Other resources: 1:15 (2D shapes)
Area: comparison, informal unitsLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 82-83, 98-100 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Area, Charts and Mindmaps: 1:02 (Area)
Two-dimensional spatial structure B
2D space: orientation, quarter turnsLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 115 · Level 1 syllabus
Area: rectangles, informal square units, arrays and grids5 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 104-106, 120-121
- 2:MG23Comparing areas
- 2:MG24Comparing and ordering areas
- 2:MG25Covering areas
- 2:MG39Area
- 2:MG40Using a grid
Level 1 e-Text pages: 99-100 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Area: (e-Text 3 p 84), Charts and Mindmaps: 2:02 (Area), Other resources: 2:15 (Centimetre grid paper)
Three-dimensional spatial structure A
3D space: cube, cylinder, sphere, rectangular prism, coneLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 80-81, 103-105 · Level 1 syllabus
Volume/capacity: Measure and compare internal volume and capacity2 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 116-117
Level 1 e-Text pages: 88-89, 112-114 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Concept Dictionary - Volume and Capacity
- Charts and Mindmaps 1:03 — Volume and capacity chart
- Cards and boards 1:07 — Measurement and position cards
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Volume and Capacity, Volume and capacity: (e-Text 3 p 85), Charts and Mindmaps: 1:03 (Volume and capacity), Cards and boards: 1:07 (Measurement and position cards)
Three-dimensional spatial structure B
3D space: classify, describe features3 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 113-115
Level 1 e-Text pages: 81, 103-105 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Charts and Mindmaps: 2:07 (Shapes around the clock)
Volume/capacity: Internal volume (capacity), informal units5 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 117, 125-128
- 2:MG36Ordering volumes
- 2:MG44Calibrating containers
- 2:MG45Volume
- 2:MG46Capacity and volume
- 2:MG47Volume and capacity
Level 1 e-Text pages: 113 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Charts and Mindmaps: 2:03 (Volume and capacity)
Volume: Comparing volumes by counting the uniform informal units used2 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 127-128
Level 1 e-Text pages: 113 · Level 1 syllabus
Non-spatial measure A
Mass: compare masses using an equal-arm balance1 worksheet
Level 2 e-Text pages: 107
Level 1 e-Text pages: 84-85, 101-102 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Mass, Charts and Mindmaps: 1:04 (Mass)
Time: months and days3 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 112, 129-130
Level 1 e-Text pages: 106-108 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
- Concept Dictionary - Time
- Charts and Mindmaps 1:05 — Time chart
- Charts and Mindmaps 1:06 — Seasons and months chart
- Cards and boards 1:08 — Months and seasons cards
- Other resources 1:14 — Seasons and months of the year
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Time, Charts and Mindmaps: 1:05-1:06 (Time/Seasons and months), Cards and Boards: 1:08 (Months and seasons), Other resources: 1:14 (Seasons and months of the year)
Clocks, o’clock, half past2 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 82-83
Level 1 e-Text pages: 78-79, 93-94 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Charts and Mindmaps: 1:05 (Time), Other resources: 2:12 (Clock faces)
Non-spatial measure B
Mass: measure using equal arm balance and informal units6 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 107-109, 122-124
- 2:MG26Weighing objects
- 2:MG27Measuring mass
- 2:MG28Light and heavy materials
- 2:MG41Mass
- 2:MG42Conservation of mass
- 2:MG43Comparing the mass of collections
Other resources
Alan’s note: Units of mass: (e-Text 3 p 90), Charts and Mindmaps: 2:04 (Mass)
Time: Duration of time using seconds, minutes, hours4 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 110-111, 129-130
- 2:MG29Measuring time with informal units
- 2:MG30Seconds, minutes, hours
- 2:MG48The calendar
- 2:MG49Months of the year
Other resources
- Charts and Mindmaps 2:05 — Time chart
- Charts and Mindmaps 2:06 — Seasons and months chart
- Other resources 1:06 — Addition webs
Alan’s note: Charts and Mindmaps: 2:05-2:06 (Time/Seasons and months), Other resources: 1:06 (Addition webs)
Clocks, quarter past, quarter to6 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 82-83, 93-95, 134
- 2:MG01Half past
- 2:MG02O'clock and half past
- 2:MG12Quarter past
- 2:MG13Quarter to
- 2:MG14Quarter past and quarter to
- 2:MG53Quarter and half turns
Other resources
Alan’s note: Other resources: 1:12 (Clock faces)
Statistics and probability
Data A
Statistics (Data): Gather data, talliesLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 113-114, 117, 121, 124-125 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Statistics (Data)
Data displays, objects and drawingsLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 113-114, 117, 119-121,124-126 · Level 1 syllabus
Data B
Statistics (Data): Collecting data, categories5 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 139-140, 142-143, 145
Data displays, tables and picture graphs8 worksheets
Chance A
Probability (Chance): Possible outcomes, identify and describeLevel 1
Covered at Level 1 (Level 1 syllabus).
Level 1 e-Text pages: 118, 122-123 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Concept Dictionary: Chance, Fun and Games: 0:10 (That’s impossible)
Chance B
Probability (Chance): Chance activities, likely, unlikely, possible2 worksheets
Level 2 e-Text pages: 146-147
Level 1 e-Text pages: 118, 122-123 · Level 1 syllabus
Other resources
Alan’s note: Other resources: 2:12 (Chance language and picture)