Stage 3, mathematics, Year B – Unit 36

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:

  • make connections between benchmark fractions, decimals and percentages
  • compare common fractions with related denominators
  • solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with related denominators.

Representing number B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RN-03

Make connections between benchmark fractions, decimals and percentages

Representing quantity fractions A – MAO-WM-01, MA3-RQF-01, MA3-RQF-02

  • Recognise the role of the number 1 as representing the whole
  • 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

  • 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)

Chance B – MAO-WM-01, MA3-CHAN-01

Create random generators and describe probabilities using fractions

Category:

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

Business Unit:

  • Curriculum and Reform
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