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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 |
Curriculum alignment |
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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 (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6N04
Apply knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals, using digital tools where appropriate; use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers
AC9M6N06
Multiply and divide decimals by multiples of powers of 10 without a calculator, applying knowledge of place value and proficiency with multiplication facts; using estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers |
Numeracy progression |
Additive strategies (P9)
Number and place value (P8, P9) Multiplicative strategies (P9) |
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Organisation | White Rose Maths |
Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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