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Vertical number line divided into ninths used to measure the relative height of birds and a human as a fraction.

Screen grab from L119 Cassowary ecology quiz.
Source: © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2011

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Pictures of cassowaries in a key representing varying fractions, in order to match the area of a holding pen.

Screen grab from L155 Cassowary fractions.
Source: © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2011

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Six shapes, divided into sections. The first, fourth and sixth shapes each have one third shaded black, and are circled. The second has one half shaded and is also circled.

Responses to area diagram question.

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A rectangle with a diagonal drawn. To its right, a circle halved with a curving line from top to bottom.

Shapes showing halves but not line symmetry.

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Fraction bars with corresponding fractions and a comparative fraction slider.

Screen grab from L2800 Fraction fiddle: tool.
Source: © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2011 

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A group of shapes consisting of three stars and five squares. Question asking for the fraction of the group that are stars. Student answer is 3/5, which is incorrect.

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A circle divided by vertical diameter. One half divided in half again. Question asking for fractions seen. Student answer is thirds, which is incorrect.

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Five fraction cards, from left to right 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8. Question asking to order from smallest to largest. Student response incorrect.

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Question asking ‘Which fraction is larger 7/8 or 5/6? Explain’. Student answer incorrect, ‘They are the same because both have just one more to make a whole’.

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A circle divided into three equal parts radiating from the centre.

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A square divided into four equal parts by its diagonals. The top and bottom quarters are shaded.

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Two circles. On the left, a smaller circle divided into quarters, with one cut out and marked with 1/4. On the right, a larger circle divided into quarters, with one cut out and marked 1/4.

Quarters cut from different sized circles.

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Student poster with cut out shapes marked with fractions and explanations.

Sample poster.

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Hand drawn student work stating 1/3 is bigger than 1/6. 1/6 represented by a rectangle divided into six equal boxes, one coloured; 1/3 represented by a circle divided into three equal parts, with one coloured.

Different shaped wholes.

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Hand drawn student work responding to ‘Draw fractions 1/4, 1/3 and 1/5 in order’. The fractions are represented correctly by rectangles divided into equal boxes with one box shaded. The rectangles are different sizes.

Different length wholes.

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Hand drawn student work to determine whether 1/3 or 1/4 is larger. Two circles the same size are side by side; the left divided into four equal parts with one part shaded, the right divided into three equal parts with one part shaded. Correct written explanation.

Same sized wholes.

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Non-unit fractions to represent the breakfast of two birds, in order to determine the larger fraction.

Screen grab from L2803 Fraction fiddle: comparing non-unit fractions.
Source: © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2011 

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One section of a patterned paper plate is covered by a section of a plain paper plate to visually represent a fraction.

Fraction wheel made from paper plates.

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A slice of cake represented as one fifth matched to the correct fraction.

Screen grab from L2801 Fraction fiddle: matching cake fractions.
Source: © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2011 

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A circle divided into four equal parts.

Area diagram showing quarters.

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A circle missing one quarter.

Diagram to prompt visualisation of the whole.

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Line from zero to one divided into fifths, labelled at the end of the interval. Another line from zero to one divided into fifths, labelled in the centre of the interval. Second line incorrect.

Correctly labelling number lines.

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Fraction cards pegged to a rope to show intervals of quarters between zero and five quarters. Four quarters is also marked as 1.

Quarters pegged on a rope.

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One bird with half of a worm, another bird with a quarter of a worm. The fractions compared on a number line to find which is smaller.

Screen grab from L2802 Fraction fiddle: comparing unit fractions.
Source: © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2011

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three quarters of 20 equals 15 or one fifth of 20 equals 4

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