scottish survey of literacy & numeracy support material first level – fractions

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Scottish Survey of Literacy & Numeracy

Support MaterialFirst Level – Fractions

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Finding a simple fraction of a single item

Or

Strategies

Shade 1 out of these 4Shade 1 out of these 4

This could be done in a number of ways, such as:

or

Strategies

StrategiesHow might you shade ½ of this regular pentagon, which has been split into unequal parts?

Finding a simple fraction of a single item

Consider though not only shading 1 out of every 4 circles, such as:

Strategies

Splitting into convenient groups of 4

Shading 1 then counting and leaving 2,3 and 4 un-shaded.

But also...

Strategies

• Consider shading 1 out of the 4 rows:

Finding a simple fraction of a single item

Finding a simple fraction of an amount

StrategiesStrategy 2: Using a number line

or

Find the numbers represented by

and ?

StrategiesStrategy 3Consider another visual approach:Split a plate into 3 equal parts

StrategiesSplit 66 equally among the 3 sections.Pupils can ‘chunk’ 66 to do this.

Start by putting 10 onto each section.

This only gets us to 30, so repeat this:

We’re now at 60, so we have 6 left to split among the sections, so 2 goes onto each section

Finding a simple fraction of an amount

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