AC9M4N04 Year 4 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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.

count by fractions including mixed numerals; locate and represent these fractions as numbers on number lines

Elaborations

• 1 cutting objects such as oranges or sandwiches into quarters and counting by quarters to find the total number, and saying the counting sequence: one-quarter, two-quarters, three-quarters, four-quarters or one-whole, five-quarters or one-and-one-quarter, six-quarters or one-and-two-quarters… eight-quarters or two-wholes...
• 2 subdividing the sections between whole numbers on parallel number lines so that one shows halves, another shows quarters and one other shows thirds; counting the fractions by jumping along the number lines, and noticing when the count is at the same position on the parallel lines
• 3 converting mixed numerals into improper fractions and vice versa and representing mixed numerals on a number line
• 4 using a number line to represent and count in tenths, recognising that \(10\) tenths is equivalent to one

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