3–6 multi-age, 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.
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
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.