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Broad Topics > Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Ratio and Proportion > Calculating with fractions
Balance of Halves
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate this balance which is marked in halves. If you had a weight on the left-hand 7, where could you hang two weights on the right to make it balance?
Fun Time
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
On Saturday, Asha and Kishan's grandad took them to a Theme Park. Use the information to work out how long were they in the theme park.
More Fraction Bars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What fraction of the black bar are the other bars? Have a go at this challenging task!
A4 Fraction Subtraction
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task offers opportunities to subtract fractions using A4 paper.
Andy's Marbles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Andy had a big bag of marbles but unfortunately the bottom of it split and all the marbles spilled out. Use the information to find out how many there were in the bag originally.
Extending Fraction Bars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you compare these bars with each other and express their lengths as fractions of the black bar?
Pizza Portions
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
My friends and I love pizza. Can you help us share these pizzas equally?
Jumping
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
After training hard, these two children have improved their results. Can you work out the length or height of their first jumps?
Magic Matrix
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Find out why these matrices are magic. Can you work out how they were made? Can you make your own Magic Matrix?
Pies
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Grandma found her pie balanced on the scale with two weights and a quarter of a pie. So how heavy was each pie?
Snake Coils
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge asks you to imagine a snake coiling on itself.
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?
In the Money
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
One quarter of these coins are heads but when I turn over two coins, one third are heads. How many coins are there?
3388
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.
Fractions in a Box
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.
Fair Feast
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?
Orange Drink
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A 750 ml bottle of concentrated orange squash is enough to make fifteen 250 ml glasses of diluted orange drink. How much water is needed to make 10 litres of this drink?
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.
Red Balloons, Blue Balloons
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Katie and Will have some balloons. Will's balloon burst at exactly the same size as Katie's at the beginning of a puff. How many puffs had Will done before his balloon burst?
Once Upon a Time
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out the height of Baby Bear's chair and whose bed is whose if all the things the three bears have are in the same proportions?
Special Sums and Products
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find some examples of pairs of numbers such that their sum is a factor of their product. eg. 4 + 12 = 16 and 4 × 12 = 48 and 16 is a factor of 48.
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!
Tray Bake
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
My recipe is for 12 cakes - how do I change it if I want to make a different number of cakes?
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?
Same Answer
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Aisha's division and subtraction calculations both gave the same answer! Can you find some more examples?
Ben's Game
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Ben passed a third of his counters to Jack, Jack passed a quarter of his counters to Emma and Emma passed a fifth of her counters to Ben. After this they all had the same number of counters.
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Two brothers were left some money, amounting to an exact number of pounds, to divide between them. DEE undertook the division. "But your heap is larger than mine!" cried DUM...
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 untangle the ropes.
Shopping Basket
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The items in the shopping basket add and multiply to give the same amount. What could their prices be?
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. . . .
Hello Again
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Anne completes a circuit around a circular track in 40 seconds. Brenda runs in the opposite direction and meets Anne every 15 seconds. How long does it take Brenda to run around the track?
A Chance to Win?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Imagine you were given the chance to win some money... and imagine you had nothing to lose...
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.
Smaller and Smaller
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you predict, without drawing, what the perimeter of the next shape in this pattern will be if we continue drawing them in the same way?
Hands Together
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Sometime during every hour the minute hand lies directly above the hour hand. At what time between 4 and 5 o'clock does this happen?
Diminishing Returns
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How much of the square is coloured blue? How will the pattern continue?
Countdown Fractions
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
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.
Keep it Simple
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can all unit fractions be written as the sum of two unit fractions?
Turning Tangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Look carefully at the video of a tangle and explain what's happening.
Sum Equals Product
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The sum of the numbers 4 and 1 [1/3] is the same as the product of 4 and 1 [1/3]; that is to say 4 + 1 [1/3] = 4 × 1 [1/3]. What other numbers have the sum equal to the product and can this be so for. . . .
Blue and White
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?
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.
Fractions Jigsaw
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A jigsaw where pieces only go together if the fractions are equivalent.
More Twisting and Turning
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
It would be nice to have a strategy for disentangling any tangled ropes...
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