Fractions - Equivalent fractions - Worksheet

The worksheet from masterthecurriculum.co.uk is designed to help Year 6 students understand and identify equivalent fractions through a variety of activities. The National Curriculum objective for this lesson is for students to identify, name, and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, with visual representations including tenths and hundredths. To achieve this, differentiated sheets and teaching slides are provided as resources. The key vocabulary for the lesson includes terms such as equivalent fractions, models, concrete representations, multiplication, and division. Students begin by exploring equivalent fractions using models and concrete representations, which helps them make connections to multiplication and division before moving on to abstract methods.

The worksheet tasks vary in complexity to cater to different learning levels, from 'Working Towards' to 'Greater Depth'. Students are engaged in fluency and precision exercises where they write equivalent fractions for given numbers, and reasoning and problem-solving activities where they must find the value of variables to complete equivalent fractions. Visual aids such as pictorial images and shapes are used to reinforce the concept, including coloring parts of shapes to represent fractions. The lesson includes key questions to prompt student thinking, such as how equivalent fractions can be recorded and the role of multiplication and division in finding them. Solutions are provided to facilitate self-correction and to ensure students understand the methods used to find equivalent fractions.