Victorian

Curriculum Links Learning Intention Activities

1 Pre-assessment Assess students current understanding Assessment task

of fractions and decimals

2 Level 4 Recognise that the place value system Can order and compare decimals up Work through pre-assessment as a class, revise key
can be extended to tenths and hundredths misconceptions highlighted in assessment
hundredths. (VCMNA159) Class discussion connect to money (thumbs indication)
6 counters (place value) pairs
ordering decimals, smallest to biggest

3 Level 4 Make connections between fractions Can change fractions to decimals and Tuning in: ordering decimals cards on a number line
and decimal notation (VCMNA159) vice versa -tenths and hundredths. whole class (formative assessment)
Explicit teaching
Level 5 Compare, order and represent Worksheets x 3 below, at, above
decimals (VCMNA190)

4 Level 6 Add and subtract decimals, with and Can add and subtract decimals Ordering decimal and fraction cards on a number line
without digital technologies, whole class (formative assessment) including pre
(VCMNA214) assessment feedback
Adding using MAB blocks explicit teaching, student
centered whole class
Solve adding problems using MAB individually

Subtracting -explicit teaching: line up decimal place, zero
as place holder
Below group work through sheet using MAB
Subtracting worksheet

5 Level 6 Use estimation and rounding to check Can round and estimate decimal Coles catalogue worksheet (Formative assessment)
the reasonableness of numbers Rounding worksheet
answers (VCMNA214) Studyladder consolidate individual understanding
 6 Level 5 Recognise that the place value system Can order and compare decimals up to Thousandths worksheet
can be extended beyond thousandths Beat the teacher game
hundredths (VCMNA189) Wishball - game

7 Level 5 Compare, order and represent Can represent decimals as fractions and Wishball
decimals (VCMNA190) percentages Tuning in: percent meaning, where have you seen/used
percentages
Level 6 Make connections between equivalent Whole class create a number line with percentages,
fractions, decimals and percentages fractions (tenths/hundredths) and decimals
(VCMNA217) Individual worksheet
Extension group: add equivalent fractions to number line
(1/4, , )
Early finishers: decimat

8 Summative Assessment Assess students learning progress