Interpreting fractions description
This sub-element emphasises the development of the fraction concept and the size of fractions rather than the development of procedures or algorithmic skills. Understanding the size of a fraction is an indicator of the depth of a student’s understanding …
Interpreting fractions | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
What is numeracy?
Numeracy is fundamental to a student’s ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. In the Australian Curriculum, students become numerate as they develop the knowledge and skills to use mathematics confidently across learning areas …
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How can the numeracy progression be used?
The National Numeracy Learning Progression can be used at a whole school, team or individual teacher level. However, the progression provides maximum student learning benefits when used as part of a whole-school strategy that involves professional learning …
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OwP3
Find a part of a whole as a percentage uses a strategy to find a percentage that represents part of a whole (what per cent is 7 of 28, may use benchmark fractions, or what per cent is 7 of 29, may multiply to calculate)
OwP3 | Operating with percentages | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
UnM7
Giving change uses complementary addition (the shopkeeper’s method of adding change to obtain the amount tendered) to determine the difference between two amounts, rounding as necessary
UnM7 | Understanding money | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
OwP1
Understanding percentages and relative size interprets per cent as meaning ‘out of 100’ recognises that 100% is a complete whole interprets a percentage as an operator (percentage is of an amount, 17% of $80, 17% does not exist alone without its …
OwP1 | Operating with percentages | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
CoU2
Ratios interprets ratios as a comparison between the same units of measure (students to teachers in a school is 20:1) expresses a ratio as equivalent fractions or percentages (ratio 1:1, each part represents ½ or 50% of the whole) uses a ratio to …
CoU2 | Comparing units (ratios, rates and proportion) | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources
NPA6
Generalising patterns identifies a single operation rule in numerical patterns and records it as a numerical expression (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 … is n + 2, or 2, 6, 18, 54 … is 3n) predicts a higher term of a pattern using the pattern’s rule Number properties creates …
NPA6 | Number patterns and algebraic thinking | Number sense and algebra | National Numeracy Learning Progression | National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions | Resources