Stage 2, mathematics, Year B – Unit 24

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

Syllabus

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:

  • partition, measure, label and compare lengths and wholes using fractions
  • use addition and subtraction of fractions to find complementary fractions
  • solve problems using equivalence and complementary fractions.

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

Category:

  • Geometric measure
  • Mathematics (2022)
  • Multiplicative relations
  • Partitioned fractions
  • Represents numbers using place value
  • Stage 2
  • Unit

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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