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Decimals and percentages: understanding, ordering and comparing

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for learning to represent values between whole numbers, from representing numbers to two decimal places using models through to ordering and comparing decimals and understanding percentages.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 4, Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching
Keywords	decimals, decimal place, fractions, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, ordering, comparing, percentages, equivalence, equivalent, reasoning, problem-solving, rounding, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Decimals, Fractions, Percentage, Place value
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M4N01 Recognise and extend the application of place value to tenths and hundredths and use the conventions of decimal notation to name and represent decimals AC9M5N01 Interpret, compare and order numbers with more than 2 decimal places, including numbers greater than one, using place value understanding; represent these on a number line AC9M5N04 Recognise that 100% represents the complete whole and use percentages to describe, represent and compare relative size; connect familiar percentages to their decimal and fraction equivalents
Numeracy progression	Number and place value (P7, P8) Interpreting fractions (P6) Proportional thinking (P1)
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