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Practice activities developed as part of the Secondary Numeracy Project. Each activity provides sufficient material for a group of students for around a week.

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Decimal Fractions of a Set

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice and develop their number properties.

add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
convert fractions (tenths) to decimals
find fractions of a quantity

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Compatible decimal fractions

Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice and develop their number properties.

Use compatible numbers to solve addition problems with decimal fractions (tenths) (Exercises 1-5)
Use compatible numbers to solve subtraction problems with decimal fractions (tenths) (Exercise 6)

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Place Value Practice (Tenths)

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.

write a decimal in expanded form, and vice versa
shade in tenths 
identify digits in the tenths column
convert improper fractions involving tenths to both a mixed number and a decimal
add and subtract a tenth from a number
identify a number on a number line marked in tenths

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Pipe music with decimals

Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Place value for decimals
  • Addition of decimals using place value
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Strategic Solving Part IV

Level Four
Level Five
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practise number properties.

solve linear equations with fractions.
use appropriate forms of the equation to solve for x.
use a range of add/sub strategies to solve linear equations.

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Feeding pets

Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Convert fractions to decimals
  • Convert fractions to equivalent fractions
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Simplifying fractions

Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Simplify fractions using a range of strategies
  • Deciding whether or not it is between to simplify or convert to a mixed number first
  • Find unknowns in box equations
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Fraction Trains

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Identify that multiples of the denominator indicate that a fraction can be renamed as a whole number
  • Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers
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Fractional blocks

Level Three
Level Four
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.
  • Use multiplication facts to find fractions of a set.
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Birthday cakes

Level Three
Number and Algebra
Secondary activities
These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties.

Using multiplication facts to find a simple fraction of an amount