Mathematics / Year 6 / Number and Algebra / Fractions and decimals

Curriculum content descriptions

Compare fractions with related denominators and locate and represent them on a number line (ACMNA125)

Elaborations
  • demonstrating equivalence between fractions using drawings and models
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Number lines,  Related denominators

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Pattern & Algebra Year 6 - Calculate

The focus of this activity to challenge students to unpack a rule and see if it is being used correctly. Often students will just learn a rule and blindly use it. This task gets students to stop and think and then make corrections to ensure the rule works in all cases (generalise).

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Café Fractions - Calculate

In this task, students take the role of the owner of a cake wholesaler, baking and supplying cakes to local café businesses. As café owners order their weekly cakes by the slice, students are required to add unit fractions together to calculate total cake orders. They then solve problems associated with subtracting fractional ...

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Ups and downs

Students position positive and negative whole numbers on a number line.

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Number: Foundation to Year 9

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of number-related ideas showing the relationship to other curriculum strands. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in number including teaching and cultural implications.

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First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 1

The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding whole and decimal numbers, and understanding fractional numbers.