Fractions: Year 6 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Fractions. Students develop increasingly efficient strategies for adding and subtracting fractions with related and unrelated denominators. They develop conceptual understanding by being given opportunities to estimate before computation and justify their thinking. They develop flexible strategies for solving problems using concrete, visual and pictorial representations.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting fractions (P7)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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