Tag Archives: fractions

Fraction Packs for KS2

Posted on February 3, 2021 by ofamily

We are massive fans of the Oaka Books Topic Packs. We use them for History, Science and Geography so I was naturally a bit curious to see what their Fraction Topic Packs looked like (they have 2 Fraction Topic Packs). … Continue reading →

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Fraction of a Number Domino Sets

Posted on June 24, 2019 by ofamily

I recently made my kids some new Fraction dominoes this time so they could practice calculating a fraction of a number (e.g. 2/5 of 150 – so the kids divide by the denominator (150 ÷ 5) and then multiple the … Continue reading →

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Understanding Maths Series. Fraction Workbook

Posted on May 31, 2019 by ofamily

I have already written a few posts about the Understanding maths series by Schofield & Sims. It is a set of workbooks that I started using with my oldest just over a year ago and am now using the whole … Continue reading →

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Linking Decimals to Fractions

Posted on December 5, 2017 by ofamily

Maths for my daughter needs to include using her hands and being involved.  Giving her worksheet after worksheet without using manipulatives does not work for her.  While we have been working on decimals we have once again been using our … Continue reading →

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Decimal pages

Posted on November 29, 2017 by ofamily

One of our new Maths topics this year has been decimals.  The way I first explained decimals to my daughter was that is was like different handwriting styles for fractions.  So just like if you can write the word hello … Continue reading →

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