Scottish Survey of Literacy & Numeracy Support Material First Level – Fractions

1. Scottish Survey of Literacy & Numeracy • Support Material • First Level – Fractions • Classroom version • Produced by Education Scotland Transforming lives through learning

2. Finding a simple fraction of a single item Or

3. Strategies Shade 1 out of these 4 Shade 1 out of these 4 This could be done in a number of ways, such as:

4. Strategies or

5. Strategies How might you shade ½ of this regular pentagon, which has been split into unequal parts?

6. Finding a simple fraction of a single item

7. Strategies Consider though not only shading 1 out of every 4 circles, such as: Splitting into convenient groups of 4 Shading 1 then counting and leaving 2,3 and 4un-shaded. But also...

8. Strategies • Consider shading 1 out of the 4 rows:

9. Finding a simple fraction of a single item

10. Finding a simple fraction of an amount

11. Strategies Strategy 2: Using a number line or Find the numbers represented by and ?

12. Strategies Strategy 3 Consider another visual approach: Split a plate into 3 equal parts

13. Strategies Split 66 equally among the 3 sections. Pupils can ‘chunk’ 66 to do this. Start by putting 10 onto each section. This only gets us to 30, so repeat this: We’re now at 60, so we have 6 left to split among the sections, so 2 goes onto each section

14. Finding a simple fraction of an amount

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