Fractions as parts of shapes
Your child can split a shape into equal parts and name each part. Fold a square into 8 equal parts, and each part is 1/8 of the whole.
In curriculum terms
Partition shapes into parts with equal areas and express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole
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If you ask your child to fold a square piece of paper into 8 equal parts, can they tell you what fraction of the whole square each part represents?
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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
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
recognise and describe one-half as one of 2 equal parts of a whole and connect halves, quarters and eighths through repeated halving
identify common uses and represent halves, quarters and eighths in relation to shapes, objects and events
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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.