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• TLF-IDM014018

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that refers to irrational numbers including pi from the Australian Curriculum for year 8 students. It contains material on the real number system and explains how irrational numbers were introduced historically to this system. Information on constructing rational ...

• TLF-IDM007103

This is a dataset that provides statistics about crimes reported by victims from 2010 to the latest year of available data. It is periodically updated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The dataset is in MS Excel format.

• TLF-IDM008604

This is a 24-page guide for teachers. It contains proofs of Pythagoras's theorem and its converse, applications of Pythagoras's theorem and a discussion of Pythagorean triads. A history of Pythagoras's theorem concludes the module.

• TLF-IDM008812

This is a 16-page guide for teachers. It is a module introducing the concept of place value.

• TLF-IDM008814

This is an 18-page guide for teachers. This module introduces the concepts of primes, composites and prime factorisation. A history of the development and use of primes concludes the module.

• TLF-IDM008816

This is a 16-page guide for teachers. This module introduces addition of whole numbers.

• TLF-IDM008818

This is a 16-page guide for teachers. This module continues the consideration of whole numbers.

• TLF-IDM008820

This is an 18-page guide for teachers. This module introduces the idea of ratios and rates.

• TLF-IDM008822

This is a 16-page guide for teachers. It provides an introduction to the initial ideas of plane geometry. Points and lines are introduced as fundamental objects in the study of geometry. Angles and parallelism are the initial areas of attention in a more formal approach to geometry that occurs from year 7.

• TLF-IDM008824

This is a 17-page guide for teachers. This module introduces the idea of ratios and rates. Ratios are used to compare two quantities. The emphasis is usually on comparing parts of the whole. Rates are a measure of how one quantity changes for every unit of another quantity. It relates the ideas of ratios, gradient and fractions.