Fractions as division video
The video uses the scenario of friends sharing food where the number of pieces does not share equally without remainders for the number of people or each person not receiving a whole portion. We show how to develop the idea of sharing as a strategy for division.
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- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions Multiplication and division
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Video
- Numeracy progression
- Multiplicative strategies (P7, P9) Interpreting fractions (P7, P8)
- Publisher
- Education Services Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons BY 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.
- Other terms
- real world maths
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