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Decimals: operating with decimals
This guide provides a sequence of small steps for learning to operate with decimals, from adding and subtracting decimals through to multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| 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, adding decimals, subtracting decimals, multiplying decimals, dividing decimals, decimal sequences, ones, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Build understanding |
| Topics | Decimals, Addition and subtraction, Multiplication and division, Place value |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA128
Add and subtract decimals, with and without digital technologies, and use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers
ACMNA130
Multiply and divide decimals by powers of 10
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Operating with decimals
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OwD1, OwD2, OwD3
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | White Rose Maths |
| Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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