Fractions: Year 5 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Fractions. Students utilise their understanding of the magnitude of fractions to add and subtract a variety of fractions. Students need to be able to understand fraction notation (e.g. the meaning of the numerator and denominator) and represent repeated addition and subtraction of simple fractions on number lines.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5N05
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting fractions (P6)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
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