AC9M3N02 Year 3 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

recognise and represent unit fractions including \(\frac12\), \(\frac13\), \(\frac14\), \(\frac15\) and \(\frac1{10}\) and their multiples in different ways; combine fractions with the same denominator to complete the whole

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that unit fractions represent equal parts of a whole; for example, one-third is one of \(3\) equal parts of a whole
• 2 representing unit fractions and their multiples in different ways; for example, using a Think Board to represent three-quarters using a diagram, concrete materials, a situation and fraction notation
• 3 cutting objects such as oranges, sandwiches or playdough into halves, quarters or fifths and reassembling them to demonstrate; for example, two-halves make a whole, four-quarters make a whole, counting the fractions as they go
• 4 sharing collections of objects, such as pop sticks or counters, between \(3, 4\) and \(5\) people and connecting division with fractions; for example, sharing between \(3\) people gives \(\frac13\) of the collection to each and sharing between \(5\) people gives \(\frac15\) of the collection to each

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