NUMERACY LEVEL 3

3.09

Selects and interprets mathematical information that may be partly embedded in a range of familiar, and some less familiar, tasks and texts

SUPPORT

CONTEXT

TEXT COMPLEXITY

TASK COMPLEXITY

Works independently and uses own familiar support resources

Range of familiar contexts Some less familiar contexts

Some specialisation in familiar/ known contexts

Routine texts

May include some unfamiliar elements, embedded information and abstraction

Includes some specialised vocabulary

Tasks involving a number of steps

Processes include sequencing, integrating, interpreting, simple extrapolating, simple inferencing, simple abstracting

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PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE:

Explicitness of mathematical information

– Interprets and comprehends a range of everyday mathematical information that is embedded in familiar and routine texts

Complexity of mathematical information

– Interprets and comprehends:

• whole numbers and familiar or routine fractions, decimals and percentages

• dates and time, including 24 hour times

• familiar and routine 2D and 3D shapes, including pyramids and cylinders

• familiar and routine length, mass, volume/capacity, temperature and simple area measures

• familiar and routine maps and plans

• familiar and routine data, tables, graphs and charts, and common chance events