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“One of the big difficulties that my students were facing with proportions and ratios was.....”

Finding fractions of a set can prove challenging for many students. The concept of equal shares is best developed when a real life sharing problem provides motivation for ensuring that there is fairness.

Domain: Proportions and ratios
Transition: 2 → 4
Barrier: Unable to identify fractions of a region or of a set.

Other resources:

Numeracy activities:

Figure It Out:

BSM

  • 12.3.7
  • 12.3.51
  • 12.3.83 (NB supporting card resource)