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How We Help Your Child Feel More Confident with Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Fractions, decimals and percentages build gradually across many year levels. A child may understand the basics, then become stuck as the work moves into equivalent fractions, different denominators, decimals, percentages or more complex word problems. Gaps can develop along the way and may not become obvious until the work gets harder.

What feels like a sudden difficulty is often linked to an earlier skill that never fully clicked. As the classroom keeps moving, those gaps can make each new step harder to understand.

That is why identifying the gaps and finding the right starting point matters.

We help your child begin at the right level, strengthen the skills they may have missed and build the understanding they need to keep moving forward with more confidence.

Assessment first

We start with an assessment to understand your child’s current maths level, identify any gaps in understanding across multiple year levels of the Australian Curriculum, and see where they are ready to move ahead. From there, we create a personalised weekly learning plan tailored to their needs.

Personalised Learning Plans

Your child’s personalised learning plan is delivered weekly and can be completed at home on a tablet or computer. Each Monday, new 20-minute maths lessons are added based on your child’s progress, helping keep learning at the right level and supporting a consistent learning routine.

Proven Progress

As your child strengthens their foundations, you’ll see them build skills and confidence in maths, and keep moving forward at a pace that feels right for them.

Expert Tutors Available

If your child needs extra support, our online maths tutors are there to explain concepts further and answer questions, so your child can continue with confidence.

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages: What’s Covered and How We Help

Fractions, decimals and percentages build across multiple year levels of the Australian Curriculum. The overview below shows how these skills develop over time and how Kinetic Education can support your child at each stage.

Every child starts from a different point, so we begin with an assessment and create a personalised learning plan based on their current understanding.

This means your child can strengthen any earlier gaps while continuing to work through curriculum-aligned lessons at a pace that suits them.

Year Level
What the Curriculum Covers
How Kinetic Helps
Foundation – Year 2
Children begin with equal sharing and simple part-whole ideas. By the end of Year 2 they can identify halves, quarters and eighths in everyday situations such as cutting shapes, sharing objects and reading time on an analogue clock.
We use clear examples and interactive activities to help your child understand equal sharing, parts of a whole and simple fractions before moving on.
Year 3 – Year 4
Unit fractions such as ½, ⅓, ¼, ⅕ and 1/10 are introduced formally. Children learn to find fractions of collections, count fractions on a number line, and by Year 4 begin connecting fractions to their decimal equivalents in tenths and hundredths. This is where many children first meet difficulty.
We break fractions into manageable steps, helping your child compare fractions, use number lines and understand how fractions connect with decimals.
Year 5 – Year 6
The content steps up. Students work with fractions that have different denominators, add and subtract them, and connect percentages to their fraction and decimal equivalents. By Year 6 they apply percentages to real situations such as discounts, comparisons and simple financial problems. This is also the NAPLAN stage, where earlier gaps tend to show under assessment.
We identify which earlier fraction skills may be causing difficulty, then add targeted lessons to your child’s personalised learning plan to strengthen those gaps before moving into decimals, percentages and NAPLAN-style questions.
Year 7 – Year 8
Fractions, decimals and percentages become tools for solving broader problems rather than topics on their own. Year 7 students use all four operations with positive rational numbers. Year 8 extends into percentage increase and decrease, rates, and proportional reasoning across measurement and financial contexts.
We strengthen the number skills behind rates, percentage change and proportional reasoning, so your child can apply them more confidently in problem solving and financial maths.
Year 9 – Year 10
Students work across the full real number system. Percentages appear in scientific notation, measurement, financial modelling and proportional scaling. Students who are not fluent here often find Years 9 and 10 much harder than they need to be.
We revisit any earlier gaps and help your child apply fractions, decimals and percentages across measurement, scientific notation, scaling and financial maths.

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Melanie

After years of struggling with maths, Melanie’s daughter boosted her grades and confidence in just a few months with Kinetic Education. She has made so much progress that her new teacher didn’t even realise she had struggled with maths in the past.

Louise

Louise’s daughters started the school year feeling anxious to go to class, worried they wouldn’t understand maths concepts. But in just 4 months, their confidence has grown, and they are now happy to go to maths classes at school. Not only this, but their school reports and grades have boosted, but most importantly their confidence has too!

Rosie

Rosie came to Kinetic Education looking for support for her two children, who both needed completely different support. Her daughter was really struggling with maths, and homework time was always stressful, while her son was one step ahead at school and starting to feel bored. With support from us, Rosie’s daughter is now able to work through new concepts confidently, and her son gets the challenges he needs to stay one step ahead.

Maths Tutoring Starts with Identifying Your Child’s Level

When your child gets started with Kinetic Education, their first step is completing our Maths Doctor assessment. This checks their maths skills across multiple year levels of the Australian Curriculum, including fractions, decimals and percentages.

The assessment helps us understand their current skills, identify any earlier gaps that may be making these topics more difficult and see where they are ready to move ahead.

It takes up to 45 minutes and gives us a clear starting point for your child’s personalised weekly learning plan. From there, we can strengthen the right foundations while helping them continue working through the curriculum at a pace that suits them.

Personalised learning

Every Monday, we update your child’s learning plan with new maths activities for the week, selected around their assessment results and progress. Their learning plan moves through three stages: Revision and Catch-Up, Consolidation, and Extension.

 

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Revision and Catch-Up

When your child first starts with Kinetic Education, their learning plan targets the knowledge gaps identified in their assessment. This may mean revisiting earlier fractions, decimals or percentages skills and strengthening the foundations they need before moving into more complex work.

Consolidation

As your child builds their understanding, their learning plan continues to reinforce the skills they are currently working on. Regular practice helps them use maths skills across the curriculum, including fractions, decimals and percentages, with more confidence and apply what they have learned to different types of questions.

Extension

When your child is ready to move ahead, their learning plan introduces more challenging maths across the curriculum, including fractions, decimals and percentages. This helps them extend their understanding, build confidence and apply their skills to more complex questions and real-world maths.

Personalised Learning with Real Tutor Support

Fractions, decimals and percentages can become difficult when an earlier skill has not fully clicked. When your family joins Kinetic Education, you are matched with a tutor who helps your child get off to a strong start, oversees their personalised learning plan and keeps an eye on their progress each week.

Each activity is designed to teach your child step by step, provide instant feedback and help them build confidence as they work through maths across the curriculum, including fractions, decimals and percentages.

We also know there may be times when your child needs extra help or encouragement. If they become stuck on a concept, their tutor can use screen sharing and a digital whiteboard to explain the task, work through an example and help them feel more confident approaching the next question independently.

Our tutors are also here for parents. You can speak with your tutor about your child’s learning needs, progress and weekly reports, so you know how they are going and what they are working on next.

Tutor support includes:

  • Tutor support available up to 10 hours per week, at no extra charge
  • Screen sharing and digital whiteboard support to explain concepts clearly
  • Guidance for parents on progress, learning needs and weekly reports

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Rewards

We know that sometimes children don’t understand why they need to do extra maths work at home, and they might need a bit of extra motivation. That’s why every child enrolled with us gets to experience our unique rewards system.

Here’s how it works: your child earns points after every maths activity, which they can save up and swap for real rewards like Smiggle, Myer, and WISH gift cards. 

Pricing

Kinetic Education’s maths tutoring covers fractions, decimals and percentages, along with other key areas of the Australian Curriculum.

Maths support starts from $29 per week for the family, which includes Maths Doctor Assessment, a personalised weekly learning plan, access to all lessons and activities, tutor support up to 10 hours per week, weekly progress reports and the Parent Helpline.

New families receive their first two weeks free.

FAQs

My child is in Year 5 and really struggling with fractions. Will Kinetic Education help identify and fill any earlier gaps?

Yes, this is exactly what the assessment is designed to find. If your child's difficulty with fractions traces back to something that wasn't fully understood in Year 3 or 4, their learning plan will address that first

Will this help my child prepare for NAPLAN?

Fractions, decimals and percentages are tested in NAPLAN for Years 3 and 5. Because our tutoring identifies and fills gaps aligned to the Australian Curriculum, children who learn with Kinetic Education tend to approach NAPLAN with more confidence. 

My child is in Year 8 and struggling with percentages. Is it too late to fix the foundations? 

Not at all. Our assessment will identify where the gap originated - whether that's Year 6 percentage concepts or Year 4 decimal understanding - and the learning plan addresses it from that point. 

How is fractions, decimals and percentages content delivered?

Through interactive lessons designed to teach your child at the right level, each concept is broken into clear steps using animations, pictures, text and audio. Activities include a range of question types, such as typing answers, click-and-drag and multiple choice, with instant feedback and worked solutions included.
When your child needs more than the lesson provides, their tutor is available to explain it differently using screen sharing and a digital whiteboard.

How much does it cost? 

Kinetic Education’s maths support covers fractions, decimals and percentages, along with the other key areas of the Australian maths curriculum. It starts from $29 per week for the family, and your first two weeks are free.

Can I speak to someone about my child's specific needs before getting started? 

Yes. When you book your free demonstration, we’ll chat about how your child is currently going with their learning, what they’re finding difficult and how Kinetic Education could support them.

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