Year 4 - Fractions - Unit 2

These creative Year 4 outdoor maths lessons make fractions fun and memorable through hands-on, real-world activities. From exploring equivalent fractions and using mud chocolate bars to bar model concert halls and fraction sweet shops, pupils build fluency, reasoning, and confidence while working collaboratively outdoors.

Lesson Plans

Recognising common equivalent fractions

In this outdoor lesson, your children will work together to make links between times tables. They’ll then have the opportunity to get as creative as possible to visually see how we can use them to find equivalent fractions.

Learning objective:

To recognise and show common equivalent fractions

Finding equivalent fraction families

The main activity of this outdoor lesson encourages your children to reason about how they know fractions are equivalent and demonstrate this through a variety of ways. They’ll get creative and deepen their own understanding at the same time!

Learning objective:

To find equivalent fraction families

Adding fractions with the same denominator

Have your children apply their existing knowledge of fractions in this practical and fun outdoor lesson. They’ll be required to add fractions with the same denominator, while getting creative and messy with making mud chocolate bars!

Learning objective:

To add two or more fractions with the same denominator

Subtracting fractions with the same denominator

In this outdoor lesson, children will develop their fluency of using bar models to represent fractions to practise subtracting fractions. They’ll work in pairs to use natural resources to create their very own concert hall, while ensuring they’ve subtracted their fractions correctly to have the right amount of people sitting in each row!

Learning objective:

To subtract fractions with the same denominator

Calculating quantities of an amount

Combine maths and sweet shops in this fun and unique outdoor lesson! Outdoor sweet shops will enable your children to practise calculating quantities of amounts, while the starter activity will mean that you have no preparation to do beforehand! Your children will collect shopping lists and visit the shops to make sure they have the right quantities (fractions of amount) for their weekly shop!

Learning objective:

To find fractions of an amount

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