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Year 4 - Fractions - Unit 2

Recognising common equivalent fractions

LO: To recognise and show common equivalent fractions.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:
  • To recognise and show, using diagrams, families of 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.

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Finding equivalent fraction families

LO: To find equivalent fraction families. 

National Curriculum Objectives covered:
  • To recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions.

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!

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Adding fractions with the same denominator

LO: To add two or more fractions with the same denominator. 

National Curriculum Objectives covered:
  • To add and subtract 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!

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Subtracting fractions with the same denominator

LO: To subtract fractions with the same denominator.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:
  • To add and subtract 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! 

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Calculating quantities of an amount

LO: To find fractions of an amount.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:
  • To solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number.

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! 

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