Fractions

We've been revisiting fractions this week.

We all had a go at folding a piece of A4 paper into thirds, to get it into a standard envelope:

... not quite right...

Will it go in?

After this, we created "Fraction Flags" that had stripes of different colours:

Here are some of them:

These helped us have a clear idea of what we meant when we talked about fractions of numbers:

Half

Before using mymaths.co.uk, we used Cuisenaire rods to represent a half:

Here, for example, we made the orange rod stand for 1. The yellow rod then has to be ½.

We tried it a lot of different ways:

And we recorded them on paper: