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Tangrams 3 – reimagining wholes
Return to the original square made up of tangram pieces and ask students: What if the square is worth 1 whole? What are each of the other pieces worth?
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Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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Audience | Student, Teacher |
Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
Format | Video |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Targeted teaching |
Keywords | square, tangram, value, fractions, one whole, problem solving, reasoning, understanding, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Number, Geometry, Build understanding |
Topics | Fractions, Shapes and objects |
AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA126
Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators
ACMNA127
Find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, with and without digital technologies
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National numeracy learning progression |
Multiplicative strategies
Interpreting fractions - InF4 |
Copyright details |
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Organisation | NSW Department of Education |
Copyright | © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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