Fractions A
(Beginning Fractions)
This 5-week tutoring program will take your child through all the basic concepts of Fractions. Through our explicit, easy to understand weekly video lessons, worksheets, assessments and slideshows. Students will learn all they need to know about fractions in year levels 4, 5 & 6. How to work with Fractions in mathematical terms and how to represent and relate to them in everyday life.
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Topics Included In This Tutoring Program:
Week 1
❖ What is a fraction? Where have you seen them?
❖ Basic fractions (wholes, halves, quarters and thirds)
❖ Numerator
❖ Denominator
❖ Vinculum
❖ Unit fractions
❖ Ordering fractions according to size
Week 2
❖ Review previous weeks content to consolidate learning
❖ Equivalent fractions
❖ Simplifying fractions
❖ Fractions on a number line
❖ Finding the factor of a number
❖ Finding the factors of a fraction
❖ Using a fraction wall
Week 3
❖ Review previous weeks content to consolidate learning
❖ Determining the Highest Common Factor (HCF) in a fraction
❖ Simplifying a range of fractions
❖ What are Proper fractions?
❖ What are Improper fractions?
Week 4
❖ Review previous weeks content to consolidate learning
❖ Mixed numerals (what are they and what do they represent?)
❖ Representing whole numbers in a fraction form
❖ Converting mixed numerals into improper fractions
❖ Converting improper fractions into mixed numerals
Week 5
❖ Review previous weeks content to consolidate learning
❖ Converting back and forth between a range of fractions
❖ Adding fractions with like denominators
❖ Adding fractions with unlike denominators
❖ Linking all new concepts and knowledge together through discussions
❖ Re-teaching any misunderstandings and misconceptions
❖ Q n A time
❖ Final assessment
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptors Covered In Fractions A:
Grade/Year 4
Investigate equivalent fractions used in contexts (ACMNA077)
Count by quarters halves and thirds, including with mixed numerals. Locate and represent these fractions on a number line (ACMNA078)
Grade/Year 5
Compare and order common unit fractions and locate and represent them on a number line (ACMNA102)
Investigate strategies to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator (ACMNA103)
Grade/Year 6
Compare fractions with related denominators and locate and represent them on a number line (ACMNA125)
Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators (ACMNA126)
