Today we used the Cuisenaire rods to investigate fractions. Mrs Savage asked us to find out which colour rod would be worth 1/2 if the red rod was a whole. We used our knowledge of equivalent fractions to help us to solve this and many other fraction problems.
Class 9
Fractions and Decimals
This term we have been learning about fractions and decimals. We used concrete resources to help our understanding. We used chocolate cake to compare denominators of fractions. We used place value counters and egg boxes Read more…
8 Comments
Harleen · 9th February 2018 at 5:48 pm
We had to work out what was the half or whole or any fraction.
Charlie · 9th February 2018 at 7:02 pm
I like investigating fractions.
Alex · 19th February 2018 at 2:51 pm
It was hard finding equivalent fractions.
Alex · 19th February 2018 at 2:47 pm
I really liked finding equivalent fractions.
Nicola · 19th February 2018 at 2:50 pm
I love investigating in maths.
Tryphon · 19th February 2018 at 2:54 pm
Working with fractions was extremely epic!
Alex · 19th February 2018 at 3:03 pm
Maths is my favourite subject in school.
Safi · 19th February 2018 at 7:35 pm
How did you know that can you please teach me how to do it.