Sharing by a Ratio using Singapore Bar Visual Method Worksheet Bundle AND ANSWERS

Really useful set of FIVE worksheets with accompanying SMART Notebook files (and PDF copies if you don’t have Notebook) and scans of ANSWERS to save you time using the Visual Singapore Bar Method for sharing by a ratio.

Also included are two Helpsheets which can be printed out and stuck into the student exercise books to a) save them copying and b) to give them worked examples to look back at.

The SMART Notebooks (or PDF’s) can be displayed on your Interactive Whiteboard to allow the teacher (or a student!) to work through examples in front of the class.

The five worksheets are roughly progressive from easier numbers to harder. An example of a question is share £12 in the ratio 1:3. The worksheet gives a scaffolded frame for the student to use to work through the steps to share £12 into £3: £9 using a bar method.

Sheet 5 is quite good as a final assessment of whether they have got it. You could use the five sheets over several lessons or use them all in one lesson but issue the harder sheets to your better students.

When you print the worksheets out for the students then you can print 2 pages per A4 to save costs. If it is a 1 page worksheet then print pages “1,1” on one sheet of A4.

The eventual aim is that the students can use this method without scaffolding. There are plenty of exercises available elsewhere once they’ve got this method. See BONUS “Helpsheet Fred” for example of this.

The answers are simply scans of my scribbled solutions - however they do the job!

The resource follows on from my “Really simple ratio introduction activity”

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