Multi-age 3–6, mathematics, Year B – Unit 04

This unit develops the big idea that fractions represent multiple ideas and can be represented in different ways.

Syllabus

Syllabus outcomes 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:

  • partition, measure, label and compare lengths and wholes using fractions
  • solve problems with fractions
  • represent and compare fractions of measures and quantities
  • understand how a fraction can represent a division (Stage 3).

Syllabus focus and content groups

Represents numbers using place value B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-RN-02

Decimals: Make connections between fractions and decimal notation

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

Partitioned fractions B – MAO-WM-01, MA2-PF-01

  • Model equivalent fractions as lengths
  • Represent fractional quantities equal to and greater than one

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, MA3-RQF-02

  • 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, MA3-RQF-02

  • Recognise that a fraction can represent a division
  • Compare common fractions with related denominators
  • Build up to the whole from a given fractional part
  • Use equivalence to add and subtract fractional quantities
  • Find fractional quantities of whole numbers (halves, quarters, fifths and tenths)

Category:

  • 3-6
  • Additive relations
  • Geometric measure
  • Mathematics (2022)
  • Multiplicative relations
  • Partitioned fractions
  • Quantity fractions
  • Represents numbers using place value
  • Unit

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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