Equivalent fractions (age 8+)
Your child can make equal fractions, like 1/3 = 2/6. They can show with a drawing why the two fractions are the same amount.
In curriculum terms
Generate simple equivalent fractions and explain why they are equivalent using visual fraction models
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child is shown a fraction bar split into 3 parts with 1 shaded (= 1/3), can they draw an equivalent bar with 6 parts that shows exactly the same amount shaded?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
find equivalent representations of fractions using related denominators and make connections between fractions and decimal notation
recognise and represent unit fractions including 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/10 and their multiples in different ways; combine fractions with the same denominator to complete the whole
compare and order fractions with the same and related denominators including mixed numerals, applying knowledge of factors and multiples; represent these fractions on a number line
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.