Fractions - Find a quarter - Worksheet

The "Find a Quarter" worksheet is a comprehensive resource aimed at Year 6 students, focusing on the concept of fractions, specifically identifying and working with one quarter. The National Curriculum objective covered by this lesson is to recognise, find, name, and write fractions such as 1/3, 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects, or quantity. To facilitate learning, resources such as worksheets, teaching slides, and physical objects like cubes are employed. Key vocabulary includes terms like whole, part, half, quarter, quantity, equal, unequal, more, and less. The students are tasked with understanding the difference between a half and a quarter and applying this knowledge to solve problems involving the division of shapes and quantities into quarters.

Through a series of fluency and precision exercises, the worksheet guides students to identify shapes divided into quarters, distribute objects equally to understand the concept of a quarter, and use visual aids like bar models to calculate quarters of numbers. For example, students might draw a circle to represent that 1/4 of 24 is 6, or complete a table by determining 1/2 and 1/4 of given numbers. The worksheet also includes reasoning and problem-solving challenges, where students label fractions of a distance, such as on a ladder, and solve practical problems involving money, demonstrating their understanding of how to find a quarter of a given amount. These activities are designed to deepen their comprehension of quarters in various contexts and to enhance their ability to reason and articulate their mathematical thinking.