Fractions
Learning From Home
Read and Colour the Fractions
one quarter one half three quarters whole
one third one quarter whole two thirds
whole one third one half two quarters
2 2 1 1
2 3 2 3
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Colouring Fractions
Follow the instructions and colour the cars.
Colour half the cars yellow
Colour a quarter of the cars red
Colour a quarter of the cars blue
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Identifying Quarters,
Thirds and Halves
Write one of these fractions in each answer box:
1 1 1 3
3 4 2 4
1. What fraction of the 2. What fraction of the
animals are snakes? pizza has been eaten?
3. What fraction of the 4. What fraction of the length of the
pizza is remaining? big pencil are the small pencils?
5. What fraction of these apples are 6. What fraction of this shape is
circled? shaded?
7. How much of his chocolate bar 8. What fraction of his dad’s height
does Steve have left? is Michael?
Sami’s Bar
Steve’s Bar
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Finding Simple Fractions
of Numbers
Find half by dividing a number into two equal parts.
Find a quarter by dividing a half into two equal parts.
1 whole = 8 ½=4 ¼=2
1. Find a half and a quarter of each of these numbers.
Draw circles to help you.
a.
1 whole = 12 ½= ¼=
b.
1 whole = 4 ½= ¼=
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c.
½= ¼=
1 whole = 16
d.
1 whole = 20 ½= ¼=
2. Find a half and a quarter of these numbers by halving
and halving again:
a. 1 whole = 28 ½= ¼=
b. 1 whole = 32 ½= ¼=
c. 1 whole = 24 ½= ¼=
d. 1 whole = 40 ½= ¼=
e. 1 whole = 100 ½= ¼=
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Recognising Equivalence between
1 2
2 and 4
1. Find 1 and 2 of each of these shapes. What do you notice?
2 4
1 2
2 = 4
a.
1 2
2
= 4
b.
1 2
2 = 4
c.
1 = 2
2 4
d.
1 = 2
2 4
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1 2
2. Find and of each of these shapes. What do you notice?
2 4
1 2
2 = 4 = 4 = 4
a.
1 2
2
= = 4
=
b.
1 2
2 = = 4 =
c.
1 2
2 = = 4 =
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1 2
3. Use what you have learned to find 2 and 4 of these numbers.
1 2
2 = 6 = 6 4
=
1 2
2= 10 = 10 4 =
1 2
2
= 14 = 14 4
=
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