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Mathematics / Year 7 / Number and Algebra / Real numbers

Curriculum content descriptions

Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions, including those with unrelated denominators (ACMNA153)

Elaborations
  • exploring and developing efficient strategies to solve additive problems involving fractions (for example by using fraction walls or rectangular arrays with dimensions equal to the denominators)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Subtraction,  Denominators,  Addition

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