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