Scottish Survey of Literacy &
Numeracy
Support Material
First Level – Fractions
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Finding a simple fraction of a single item
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Shade 1 out of these 4
Shade 1 out of these 4
This could be done in a number of ways, such as:
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or
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How might you shade ½ of this regular pentagon, which has been split into
unequal parts?
Finding a simple fraction of a single item
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Consider though not only shading 1 out of every 4 circles, such as:
Splitting into convenient
groups of 4
But also...
Shading 1 then counting and
leaving 2,3 and 4 un-shaded.
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• Consider shading 1 out of the 4 rows:
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Finding a simple fraction of an amount
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Strategy 2: Using a number line
or
Find the numbers represented by
and
?
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Strategy 3
Consider another visual approach:
Split a plate into 3 equal parts
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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
Finding a simple fraction of an amount
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