Fractions - Fraction of an amount 3 - Presentation

In a series of engaging activities designed to enhance students' understanding of fractions and how to find a fraction of an amount, the lesson begins by encouraging pupils to articulate the steps involved in this process. Through various scenarios, the students apply their knowledge to real-life situations. For instance, Tia has £3.50 and wishes to share half with her sister. By breaking down the amounts and finding halves of each coin value, students calculate that her sister would receive £1.75. Similarly, Zach has £2.20 and by following the same method, it is determined that half of this amount is £1.10, illustrating the practical application of finding fractions of monetary values.

Further activities involve group work where children are tasked with dividing a jar of cranberry jam weighing 800g into four equal parts, with each child receiving 200g. This concept is reinforced with a bag of sweets weighing 240g, where each of the four children receives 60g, a quarter of the total weight. The lesson progresses to more abstract concepts such as dividing time, where students learn to find fractions of an hour using a clock face for visual aid. They discover that one third of an hour is 20 minutes and two thirds is 40 minutes, while one quarter is 15 minutes and three quarters is 45 minutes. The lesson also touches on more complex scenarios involving giraffes eating pears, clownfish sharing seaweed, and a scuba diver's oxygen consumption, all designed to strengthen the students' fraction computation skills and reasoning abilities. Finally, independent work tasks challenge the students to read problems carefully and demonstrate their solutions, cementing their understanding of fractions in various contexts.