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

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This is a website designed for both teachers and students that refers to making connections between percentages, decimals and fractions, as well as calculating percentages and percentage discounts from the Australian Curriculum for year 6 students. It contains material on calculating percentages of an amount and calculating ...

• TLF-IDM021059

This lesson prompts students to examine data from the Reconciliation Barometer report, collect their own local data and compare with the national findings. Students discuss the meaning of reconciliation, explore statements from Reconciliation Barometer report, design a survey to collect local data relating to the statements ...

• TLF-IDA005787

This learning sequence explores measurement and geometry. Throughout the sequence, students are encouraged to estimate and test their estimates. Students transition from measuring and comparing different lengths, masses, capacities, and temperatures of common items to measuring perimeter, area of two-dimensional shapes ...

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In this activity, students use fractions to create scaled model planets. Students predict how big each planet will look in comparison to Earth, and draw their predictions. They use operations involving fractions to calculate the scales of their models and use different methods to measure the diameter of the model planets.

• TLF-IDA003156

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Fractions, decimals and percentages. Students use their knowledge of percentage and decimal equivalents to calculate percentage discounts.

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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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This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 6 Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling. Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving natural and rational numbers and percentages, including in financial contexts. They formulate the problem, choose operations and efficient calculation strategies, and use ...

• TLF-IDA004749

This 2-week unit introduces the big idea that our number system extends infinitely to very large and very small numbers.

• TLF-IDM008606

This is a 21-page guide for teachers containing an introduction to decimals and percentages. It shows how place value is extended to describe positive numbers less than one. It also explores how to represent decimals on the number line, compare decimals, undertake the four basic arithmetic operations with decimals and change ...