Cutting it up
Students represent fractions using linear materials and recognise key equivalent fractions. They share collections equally to solve simple problems (halves, quarters and eighths).
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| Year level(s) | Year 3 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model, Culturally responsive pedagogies |
| Keywords | RAMR, YuMi Deadly Mathematics |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Culture |
| Strand and focus | Number |
| Topics | Fractions |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M3N02
Recognise and represent unit fractions including 12, 13, 14, 15 and 110 and their multiples in different ways; combine fractions with the same denominator to complete the whole |
| Numeracy progression |
Interpreting fractions (P5)
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| Organisation | Queensland University of Technology |
| Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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