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Fractions: tenths, equivalence and applying operations

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for deepening understanding of fractions, from using models to partition a whole into fractional parts through to finding the fraction of an amount, and adding and subtracting fractions.

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Year level(s)	Year 3, Year 4, Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching
Keywords	equivalent fractions, comparing, ordering, adding fractions, subtracting fractions, bar model, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Fractions, Addition and subtraction
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M3N02 Recognise and represent unit fractions including 12, 13, 14, 15 and 110 and their multiples in different ways; combine fractions with the same denominator to complete the whole AC9M4N04 Count by fractions including mixed numerals; locate and represent these fractions as numbers on number lines AC9M4N01 Recognise and extend the application of place value to tenths and hundredths and use the conventions of decimal notation to name and represent decimals AC9M5N03 Compare and order fractions with the same and related denominators including mixed numerals, applying knowledge of factors and multiples; represent these fractions on a number line AC9M5N05 Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators, using different strategies
Numeracy progression	Interpreting fractions (P5, P6, P8) Counting processes (P8) Number and place value (P7) Additive strategies (P9)
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