Grade 5

What is notation?

notation

An agreed way of writing something in mathematics.

For example

Writing three quarters as 3/4 is standard fraction notation.

In Grade 5

Children compare different ways of writing the same value and agree which notation to use.

Watch out for

Children often invent their own notation partway through working. Agreed notation is what lets another person follow the working.

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Ask your child to explain what each symbol in their working actually means.

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