AC9M8N03 Year 8 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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 terminating and recurring decimals, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 identifying when a fraction has a terminating decimal expansion from the prime factorisation of its denominator; for example, \(\frac7{24}\;=\;0.291\overset\_6\) does not have a terminating decimal expansion, while \(\frac7{25}\;=\;0.28\) does
• 2 identifying terminating, recurring and non-terminating decimals and choosing their appropriate representations such as \(\frac13\) is represented as \(0.\overset\_3\)

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