Fractions

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A bowl of fruit

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you work out how many apples there are in this fruit bowl if you know what fraction there are?
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Happy halving

Age

5 to 7

Challenge level

Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?
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Pizza portions

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

My friends and I love pizza. Can you help us share these pizzas equally?
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Chocolate

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

There are three tables in a room with blocks of chocolate on each. Where would be the best place for each child in the class to sit if they came in one at a time?
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Stretching fractions: a discussion

This article extends and investigates the ideas in the problem "Stretching Fractions".
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Tangles

A personal investigation of Conway's Rational Tangles. What were the interesting questions that needed to be asked, and where did they lead?
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Count the beat

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?
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The harmonic triangle and Pascal's triangle

The harmonic triangle is built from fractions with unit numerators using a rule very similar to Pascal's triangle.
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Teaching fractions with understanding: part-whole concept

Written for teachers, this article describes four basic approaches children use in understanding fractions as equal parts of a whole.
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History of fractions

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.