ACMNA058

Model and represent unit fractions including 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5 and their multiples to a complete whole

Elaborations

• partitioning areas, lengths and collections to create halves, thirds, quarters and fifths, such as folding the same sized sheets of paper to illustrate different unit fractions and comparing the number of parts with their sizes (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• locating unit fractions on a number line (Skills: Numeracy)
• recognising that in English the term ‘one third’ is used (order: numerator, denominator) but that in other languages this concept may be expressed as ‘three parts, one of them’ (order: denominator, numerator) for example Japanese (Skills: Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding)

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