Decimal fractions
Unit 1 – 5 weeks
Primary
KS2
Year 5
Curriculum
The PowerPoint file contains slides you can use in the classroom to support each of the learning outcomes for this unit, listed below.
The slides are comprehensively linked to associated pedagogical guidance in the NCETM Primary Mastery Professional Development materials. There are also links to the ready-to-progress criteria detailed in the DfE Primary Mathematics Guidance 2020.
Learning outcomes
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pupils identify tenths as part of a whole |
| 2 | Pupils describe and represent tenths as a decimal fraction |
| 3 | Pupils count in tenths in different ways |
| 4 | Pupils describe and write decimal numbers with tenths in different ways |
| 5 | Pupils compare and order decimal numbers with tenths |
| 6 | Pupils explain that decimal numbers with tenths can be composed additively |
| 7 | Pupils explain that decimal numbers with tenths can be composed multiplicatively |
| 8 | Pupils use their knowledge to calculate with decimal numbers within and across one whole |
| 9 | Pupils use their knowledge to calculate with decimal numbers using mental methods |
| 10 | Pupils use their knowledge to calculate with decimal numbers using column addition and subtraction |
| 11 | Pupils use representations to round a decimal number with tenths to the nearest whole number |
| 12 | Pupils identify hundredths as part of a whole |
| 13 | Pupils describe and represent hundredths as a decimal fraction |
| 14 | Pupils describe and write decimals numbers with hundredths in different ways |
| 15 | Pupils compare and order decimal numbers with hundredths |
| 16 | Pupils explain that decimal numbers with hundredths can be partitioned in different ways |
| 17 | Pupils use their knowledge of decimal place value to convert between and compare metres and centimetres |
| 18 | Pupils explain that different lengths can be composed additively and multiplicatively |
| 19 | Pupils use their knowledge of decimal place value to solve problems in different contexts |
| 20 | Pupils use their knowledge to calculate with decimal numbers up to and bridging one tenth |
| 21 | Pupils use their knowledge to calculate with decimal numbers using column addition and subtraction |
| 22 | Pupils round a decimal number with hundredths to the nearest tenth |
| 23 | Pupils round a decimal number with hundredths to the nearest whole number |
| 24 | Pupils read and write numbers with up to 3 decimal places |
| 25 | Pupils compare and order numbers with up to 3 decimal places |