Children you might like to: <br />
<ul>
<li>List all the different instances when you use fractions.</li>
<li>Think about how you met fractions in school and what you have
been taught. What can you remember?</li>
<li>Convince someone that a quarter is bigger than a fifth. (hint:
think of sweets)</li>
<li>Take a line make it half as big again. Draw a shape
on dotty paper - now make that half as big again.</li>
</ul>
<div>Parents you might like to:</div>
<ul>
<li>Explain in what contexts you use fractions at work and in the
home.</li>
<li>Investigate the fractional parts of a pound before the
decimalisation of our currency in 1972.</li>
<li>Convince someone a quarter is bigger than a fifth.</li>
<li>Investigate the idea of ratio when mixing water and squash or
when sharing out meals/ sweets etc.</li>
<li>Explore the use of fractions within the context of time.</li>
</ul>
<div>Teachers you might like to:</div>
<ul>
<li>Explore the Tangram to explain and illustrate the 'sixteenths'
family of fractions.</li>
<li>Consider the differing ways of re' presenting fractional
quantities.</li>
<li>Explain why "we turn one fraction upside down and multiply
out"</li>
<li>Investigate mixing liquids/ sharing sweets in differing
ratios.</li>
<li>Develop the vocabulary of fractions and illustrate the
different members of the fraction family - vulgar fractions,
improper fractions, decimal fractions, etc.</li>
<li>Halve a square in as many different ways as possible.</li>
</ul>
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