An article describing activities which will help develop young children's concept of fractions.
This article, written for primary teachers, links to rich tasks which will help develop the underlying concepts associated with fractions and offers some suggestions for models and images that help support ideas around fractions.
In how many ways can you halve a piece of A4 paper? How do you know they are halves?
Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Can you find ways to make twenty-link chains from these smaller chains? This gives opportunities for different approaches.
Watch this animation. What do you see? Can you explain why this happens?
