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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.

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Year level(s)	Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
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 content descriptions	ACMNA079 Recognise that the place value system can be extended to tenths and hundredths. Make connections between fractions and decimal notation ACMNA104 Recognise that the place value system can be extended beyond hundredths ACMNA131 Make connections between equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages
National numeracy learning progression	Operating with decimals - OwD1, OwD2 Operating with percentages - OwP1, OwP2, OwP3
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