5 Summary of Week 2
After completing Week 2 you have met some mathematical diagrams which can be used to represent fractions, percentages and decimals. You will have seen how such diagrams can be effective in helping to:
- demonstrate equivalence in fractions, decimals and percentages
- show how to calculate fractions and percentages of quantities
- support methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions.
An important message from Week 2 is that it is important to build on learners’ understanding of how mathematics works; conceptual understanding, and of how mathematical methods work; procedural understanding.
Next week you will build on the learning from week two when you learn about proportional reasoning, one of the important ideas from mathematics.
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