Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Curriculum details

Strand

Number (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages (1.3)

Content standard

B8.1.3.1 - Apply the understanding of operation on fractions to solve problems involving fractions of given quantities and round the results to given decimal and significant places.

Indicator

B8.1.3.1.3 - Review word problems involving basic operations on fractions and related concepts.

Suggested placement

Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

Mathematics, Common Core Programme (JHS1-JHS3), 2023, p. 103

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

E.g. 1. Solve word problems involving fractions.
i. Determine the (i) perimeter and (ii) area of a rectangle whose sides measure 1 1 cm by 3 3 cm. 3 4

ii. Faako answers 42 out of 60 questions correctly. What percentage of her answers are correct?
iii. In a school 2 of the students eat from the school feeding 3
programme, 1 bring their packed lunch, and the rest go home to 4
eat. What fraction of the students go home for lunch?
iv. Esi and Fusena prepared an orange drink by mixing orange squash and water. Esi's drink was made of 2 orange squash and 7
Fusena's was made up of 1 orange squash. Whose drink tastes 4
stronger of orange?