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reSolve: Bar model method – introduction
This sequence of lessons introduces students to the Singapore Bar Model allowing them to visualise quantities in a problem. Students learn how to construct a model that represents the quantities in a given context. The sequence demonstrates part-whole and comparison models for whole numbers and fractions. It is recommended that these lessons are completed as a sequence. There is an overview of the Bar Model and the lessons are outlined in detail including vocabulary, curriculum links, discussion points and further activities. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry program.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions Addition and subtraction Multiplication and division Operating with number
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P8, P9) Interpreting fractions (P5, P7, P8) Multiplicative strategies (P6, P7, P9) Number and place value (P7) Proportional thinking (P2) Understanding money (P7, P8)
- Publisher
- reSolve Maths by Inquiry
- Copyright
- © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- division fraction
- Other terms
- addition bar model multiplication subtraction whole number
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