Stage 3, mathematics, Year B – Unit 24
This unit develops the big idea that fractions represent multiple ideas and can be represented in different ways.
Students are provided with opportunities to:
- understand how a fraction can represent a division
- represent and compare fractions of measures and quantities, building up to the whole from a given fraction
- solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with related denominators.
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)
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.