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Fraction Animals

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Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Use simple additive strategies with whole numbers and fractions.

Purpose: 

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

Specific Learning Outcomes: 

Dividing by sharing into equal sets (equal subtractions)

Description of mathematics: 

Proportions and Ratios, EA (Stage 5)

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

Prior knowledge

  • Sharing by dealing
  • Recall basic addition facts, including doubles knowledge. For example, 50 + 50 = 100, 3 + 3 + 3 = 9

Background

Halving as the opposite of doubling may be a worthwhile piece of learning that can develop from discussions around the answers to exercise 3, where students are just halving numbers.
Remember that students who have not reached stage 6 in the "basic facts" domain have not learned all of their basic multiplication facts, so a multiplicative strategy based purely on the numbers may not work for all students.

Comments on the Exercises

Exercise 1
Asks students to solve word problems that involve finding unti fractions of a set.

Exercise 2
Asks students to solve word problems.  These word problems are more complex than Exercise 1.  Students are asked to identify the fraction and then the answer.

Exercise 3
Asks students to solve a set of problems that asks them to find one half of a number.

Exercise 4
Asks students to solve a set of problems that asks them to find one third of a number.

Exercise 5
Asks students to solve a set of problems that asks them to find one quarter of a number.

Related Resources: 

These activities can be used to follow the teaching episodes based on, Book 7, Fraction Circles and are for those students who are able to use the associated number properties.

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FractionAnimalClass.pdf87.91 KB
FractionAnimalClass.doc69 KB
FractionAnimalHome.pdf70 KB
FractionAnimalHome.doc47.5 KB

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