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• Mathematics | Mathematics: Rationale and Aims

  The VCAA has published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
  
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  Overview material | Mathematics

• VCMNA136

  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
  • locating unit fractions on a number line
  • recognising that in English the term ‘one third’ is used (order: numerator, denominator) but in other languages, such as Japanese for example, this concept may be expressed as ‘three parts, one of them’ (order: denominator, numerator)

  VCMNA136 | Mathematics | Level 3 | Number and Algebra | Fractions and decimals