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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).
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 3
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M3N02
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting fractions (P5)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- equivalent fractions
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly
- File type
- File size
- 0.6 MB
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