Fractions at KS1

Full of great ideas and resources, our Fractions at KS1 pack is practical and creative in equal parts.

The pack will help your children to: understand the purpose of fractions; find fractions of shapes and amounts; use fractions to describe routes and angles and identify equivalent fractions.

Too good by half!

What's included?

• 22 supporting resources
• includes introductory activities, main teaching points, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks
• links to the curriculum

What's inside?

Section 1: Fractions you already know (pages 1-4)

• Teaching ideas
• Fraction picture match cards – food
• Fraction phrase word cards

Section 2: Why do we need fractions? (pages 5-14)

• Teaching ideas
• Putting back the pieces
• Fraction shopping
• Mythological halves
• Fair or unfair share

Section 3: Finding fractions of shapes (pages 15-27)

• Teaching ideas
• Shape folding
• Fraction-ory
• Shaded fraction shapes
• Fraction tiles – writing fractions
• Shape fraction cards

Section 4: Working out fractions of amounts (pages 28-36)

• Teaching ideas
• Fraction RUCSAC
• Mini-beast sorting cards
• Sweet fractions

Section 5: Using fractions to describe routes and angles (pages 37-46)

• Teaching ideas
• The Right angle
• Robot controller
• Car maze
• Treasure maze hunt – fraction turns
• Fraction maze correction

Section 6: Recognising equivalent fractions (pages 47-56)

• Teaching ideas
• Equivalent fractions snap
• Which is biggest?
• Fraction bookmarks