If there is one word that seems to strike fear into many adults it is ‘fractions’. Yet, if the simple ideas are fully understood then the rest is easy. In Year 2 children need to understand how to find a quarter of something before they try to find three quarters. To colour three quarters of [...]

Once children are really familiar with halves they can be introduced to quarters in a practical situation. There are two different aspects to this: a. dividing a number of objects into 4 (eg 20 sweets between 4 girls) b. dividing one whole one into 4 (eg a bar of chocolate shared equally between 4 boys) [...]

Fractions can be tricky, especially for older children who have not picked up the basics at an early age, so it is important to spend some time on this. As well as dividing shapes into half, numbers can also be halved, or divided into two equal parts. Using practical apparatus is the best way to [...]

Halves are usually the first fraction which children come across and these four worksheets look at how to colour or divide shapes into half. They have been designed so that it can be seen that a shape can be divided in half in a number of different ways: the important mathematical concept is that each [...]