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Purpose

These exercises and activities are for students to use independently of the teacher to practice number properties

Achievement Objectives
NA2-5: Know simple fractions in everyday use.
Specific Learning Outcomes
  • Shading a fraction of an object that has been partitioned into equal pieces
  • Shading a fraction of a set of objects
  • Completing a shape (or set of objects) if only part of it is given
Description of Mathematics

Fractions ratios and proportions, stages 3 to 4, counting from one by imaging to advanced counting

Required Resource Materials
Homework exercises with answers (PDF or Word)
Activity

Prior knowledge. Students should be able to:

  • Identify shapes that have been cut correctly in to fractional pieces (where all are an equal size), and those that have not
  • Explain the functions of the two different numbers in a fraction

Background

These exercises are for students with little fractional knowledge and focus on the ‘parts of a whole’ construct of fractions.

When marking, it is important to discuss with students that it does not matter which pieces are shaded, as long as the correct number are shaded. Likewise for exercise 3, there are a range of different shapes that could be the whole figure. Note that several shapes have been left unshaded in the answers for exercise 1, so students come to you for this discussion.

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Level Two