# Mathematics / Year 7 / Number and Algebra / Real numbers

Curriculum content descriptions

Multiply and divide fractions and decimals using efficient written strategies and digital technologies (ACMNA154)

Elaborations
• investigating multiplication of fractions and decimals, using strategies including patterning and multiplication as repeated addition, with both concrete materials and digital technologies, and identifying the processes for division as the inverse of multiplication
General capabilities
• Numeracy Numeracy
• ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Division,  Simple fractions,  Multiplication,  Decimals

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