Fractions - Unit fractions - Worksheet

The worksheet titled "Fractions - Unit fractions" is designed to help Year 6 students master the concept of unit and non-unit fractions. The National Curriculum objective covered in this lesson is for students to recognise, find, name, and write fractions such as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects, or quantity. To facilitate the learning process, the resources provided include differentiated sheets and teaching slides. The vocabulary for the lesson encompasses terms like fractions, quantity, unit fraction, non-unit fractions, halves, thirds, quarters, denominator, numerator, and represent. Students are expected to understand that a unit fraction represents one equal part of a whole and that the denominator indicates the number of parts into which a shape or quantity is divided.

During the lesson, students are encouraged to explore how unit fractions can be represented in various ways and to understand the significance of the unit in unit fractions. They are tasked with identifying fractions of objects and shapes, discerning the similarities and differences between them, and comparing the size of unit fractions when the whole remains constant. The worksheet offers support by providing bars already equally split and a selection of vocabulary for the students to choose from. As they progress, students are challenged to divide bars equally and recall the correct terminology independently. More advanced students face tasks with missing parts in their tables and complex shapes to work with. The lesson also includes reasoning and problem-solving activities, where students engage with questions like determining which fraction of a number would be greater and shading shapes to represent given fractions, thereby deepening their understanding of unit and non-unit fractions.