Multi-age 3–6, mathematics, Year A – Unit 04
Introduce students to the big idea that fractions represent multiple ideas and can be represented in different ways in this sample unit.
Syllabus
Outcomes and content descriptors from Mathematics K–10 Syllabus (2022) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.
Students are provided with opportunities to:
- create fractional and complementary parts of a length
- model, label and describe fractions through fraction strips and fraction walls
- explore equivalence and multiplicative relationships of fractions
- understand how fractions can be compared and ordered in different ways
- explore what happens when a fraction exceeds a whole
- find missing fractions of one whole.
Syllabus focus and content groups
Multiplicative relations A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-MR-01
- Generate and describe patterns
- Recall multiplication facts of 2 and 4, 5 and 10 and related division facts
Partitioned fractions A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-PF-01
- Create fractional parts of a length using techniques other than repeated halving
- Model and represent unit fractions, and their multiples, to complete a whole on a number line
Geometric measure A – MAO-WM-01, MA2-GM-02
Length: Measure and compare objects using metres, centimetres and millimetres
Geometric measure B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-GM-02
Length: Use scaled instruments to measure and compare lengths
Additive relations A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-AR-01
Apply efficient mental and written strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems
Representing quantity fractions A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RQF-01
- Recognise the role of the number 1 as representing the whole
- Compare and order common unit fractions
- Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator
Representing quantity fractions B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RQF-01
- Recognise that a fraction can represent a division
- Build up to the whole from a given fractional part