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Broad Topics > Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Ratio and Proportion > Fractions
Dividing a Cake
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Annie cut this numbered cake into 3 pieces with 3 cuts so that the numbers on each piece added to the same total. Where were the cuts and what fraction of the whole cake was each piece?
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Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Using some or all of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using the digits 3, 3, 8 and 8 each once and only once make an expression equal to 24.
Mathematical Swimmer
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Twice a week I go swimming and swim the same number of lengths of the pool each time. As I swim, I count the lengths I've done so far, and make it into a fraction of the whole number of lengths I. . . .
Fractions Made Faster
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the fraction wall to compare the size of these fractions - you'll be amazed how it helps!
Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow....
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Whenever a monkey has peaches, he always keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long could he make his peaches last for?
Light Blue - Dark Blue
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the successive areas of light blue in these diagrams.
Linked Chains
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find ways to make twenty-link chains from these smaller chains? This gives opportunities for different approaches.
Water Lilies
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are some water lilies in a lake. The area that they cover doubles in size every day. After 17 days the whole lake is covered. How long did it take them to cover half the lake?
Rectangle Tangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The large rectangle is divided into a series of smaller quadrilaterals and triangles. Can you untangle what fractional part is represented by each of the ten numbered shapes?
Chocolate Bars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An interactive game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
Fractions and Coins Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
Fraction Lengths
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find combinations of strips of paper which equal the length of the black strip? If the length of the black is 1, how could you write the sum of the strips?
Do Unto Caesar
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
At the beginning of the night three poker players; Alan, Bernie and Craig had money in the ratios 7 : 6 : 5. At the end of the night the ratio was 6 : 5 : 4. One of them won $1 200. What were the. . . .
Fraction Fascination
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem challenges you to work out what fraction of the whole area of these pictures is taken up by various shapes.
Unit Fractions
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Consider the equation 1/a + 1/b + 1/c = 1 where a, b and c are natural numbers and 0 < a < b < c. Prove that there is only one set of values which satisfy this equation.
Paper Halving
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In how many ways can you halve a piece of A4 paper? How do you know they are halves?
Rod Fractions
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Pick two rods of different colours. Given an unlimited supply of rods of each of the two colours, how can we work out what fraction the shorter rod is of the longer one?
Matching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
Cuisenaire Environment
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
The Greedy Algorithm
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The Egyptians expressed all fractions as the sum of different unit fractions. The Greedy Algorithm might provide us with an efficient way of doing this.
Adding Triangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the total area of the first two triangles as a fraction of the original A4 rectangle? What is the total area of the first three triangles as a fraction of the original A4 rectangle? If. . . .
Farey Sequences
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.
Diminishing Returns
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
In this problem, we have created a pattern from smaller and smaller squares. If we carried on the pattern forever, what proportion of the image would be coloured blue?
What Do You See Here?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An activity for teachers to initiate that adds to learners' developing understanding of fractions.
Exploring Fractions
Age 5 to 11
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. . . .
Cuisenaire Without Grid
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
Keep it Simple
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can all unit fractions be written as the sum of two unit fractions?
More Twisting and Turning
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
It would be nice to have a strategy for disentangling any tangled ropes...
Twisting and Turning
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take a look at the video and try to find a sequence of moves that will take you back to zero.
Bull's Eye
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What fractions of the largest circle are the two shaded regions?
Count the Beat
Age 5 to 11
This article, written by Nicky Goulder and Samantha Lodge, reveals how maths and marimbas can go hand-in-hand! Why not try out some of the musical maths activities in your own classroom?
Egyptian Fractions
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The Egyptians expressed all fractions as the sum of different unit fractions. Here is a chance to explore how they could have written different fractions.
Tangles
Age 11 to 16
A personal investigation of Conway's Rational Tangles. What were the interesting questions that needed to be asked, and where did they lead?
The Cantor Set
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take a line segment of length 1. Remove the middle third. Remove the middle thirds of what you have left. Repeat infinitely many times, and you have the Cantor Set. Can you picture it?
How Long Is the Cantor Set?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take a line segment of length 1. Remove the middle third. Remove the middle thirds of what you have left. Repeat infinitely many times, and you have the Cantor Set. Can you find its length?
Doughnut
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can you cut a doughnut into 8 equal pieces with only three cuts of a knife?
History of Fractions
Age 7 to 14
Who first used fractions? Were they always written in the same way? How did fractions reach us here? These are the sorts of questions which this article will answer for you.
Teaching Fractions with Understanding: Part-whole Concept
Age 5 to 14
Written for teachers, this article describes four basic approaches children use in understanding fractions as equal parts of a whole.
Racing Odds
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
In a race the odds are: 2 to 1 against the rhinoceros winning and 3 to 2 against the hippopotamus winning. What are the odds against the elephant winning if the race is fair?
Plutarch's Boxes
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
According to Plutarch, the Greeks found all the rectangles with integer sides, whose areas are equal to their perimeters. Can you find them? What rectangular boxes, with integer sides, have. . . .
Couples
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
In a certain community two thirds of the adult men are married to three quarters of the adult women. How many adults would there be in the smallest community of this type?
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