Understanding fractions (age 10+)
Move fluently between real-world situations, diagrams, coordinate grids, algebraic expressions, tables, and symbolic equations involving fractions, ratio, and algebra, explaining connections between representations
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When your child is working on an algebra or ratio problem, can they move fluidly between a graph, a table of values, a written equation, and a real-world story — explaining how each representation shows the same relationship?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
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 explain the connection between multiplication and division as inverse operations and use this to develop families of number facts
solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions using knowledge of equivalent fractions
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.