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