Multi-age K–2, mathematics, Year B – Unit 15
This two-week unit develops students' knowledge and skills in understanding that a fraction can mean half a collection or half a measure.
Syllabus
Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from the 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 opportunities to:
- engage in meaningful activities using repeated halving to explore halves, quarters or eighths
- create and explore collections of objects that have or have not been divided into halves, quarters or eighths
- share objects into smaller groups and recognise if the number in each group is equal or not
- investigate division through sharing and grouping a collection, including leftovers.
Syllabus focus area and content groups
Representing whole numbers – MAO-WM-01, MAE-RWN-01, MAE-RWN-02
- Use the counting sequence of ones flexibly
- Recognise number patterns
- Connect counting and numerals to quantities
Combining and separating quantities – MAO-WM-01, MAE-CSQ-01, MAE-CSQ-02
- Model additive relations and compare quantities
- Identify part–whole relationships in numbers up to 10
Forming groups – MAO-WM-01, MAE-FG-01, MAE-FG-02
- Investigate equal groups by sharing
Record grouping and sharing
Geometric measure – MAO-WM-01, MAE-GM-03
Length: Create half a length
Representing whole numbers – MAO-WM-01, MA1-RWN-01, MA1-RWN-02
- Part A – Represent the structure of groups of ten in whole numbers
- Part A – Represent numbers on a line
- Part B –Use counting sequences of ones and tens flexibly
- Part B –Form, regroup, and rename three-digit numbers
Forming groups – MAO-WM-01, MA1-FG-01
- Part A – Recognise and represent division
- Part B – Model doubling and halving with fractions
Geometric measure – MAO-WM-01, MA1-GM-03
- Part A – Length: Subdivide lengths to find halves and quarters
- Part B – Length: Repeatedly halve lengths to form eighths