Stage 3, mathematics, Year A – Unit 16

This 2-week 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 opportunities to:

  • represent fractions using number lines, bar models, area models and discrete models
  • make connections between fractions, decimals and percentages
  • apply efficient mental and written strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Represents numbers B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RN-03

  • Decimals and percentages: Make connections between benchmark fractions, decimals and percentages
  • Decimals and percentages: Determine percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50%

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-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, MA3-RQF-01

Compare common fractions with related denominators

Category:

  • Additive relations
  • Mathematics (2022)
  • Representing quantity fractions
  • Represents numbers
  • Stage 3
  • Unit

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