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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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	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, adding decimals, subtracting decimals, multiplying decimals, dividing decimals, decimal sequences, ones, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
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
National numeracy learning progression	Operating with decimals - OwD1, OwD2, OwD3
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