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Fractions are a topic that seems to have a negative connotation around it. Regardless of your child’s age, the following ideas can easily be differentiated to cater for everyone.
Some tips to try at home include:
Support children’s understanding of Fractions through activities involving division
Start with an activity that involves equal sharing of a set of objects among a group. Children can draw a picture or use physical objects such as pebbles, candies or blocks to demonstrate sharing among a group. Something such as a bag of lollies or popcorn are always fun to share!
Support children’s understanding of Fractions through activities involving measurement
Adult: I have two different-sized cups. Let’s see how many cups of water from the smaller, pink cup will fill up the larger, blue cup.
A child fills the larger cup with water from the smaller cup, counting each pour. Also, try estimating how much of the larger cup would fill the smaller cup.
Ask, “How many pink cups do we need to fill two blue cups?”
Adult: It looks like one pour from the pink cup wasn’t enough to fill up the blue cup, but two pours would have been too much. We needed between one and two cups of water from the pink cup to fill the blue cup exactly.
About a quarter of the pink cup is still full of water. That means the blue cup can hold an amount of water that is just about equal to one and three-quarters of the pink cup.
Support children’s understanding of Fractions by getting them to think about when they will use fractions in the real world.
Get cooking! Invite your child to cook with you and encourage them to work out ¼ cup, ⅓, half a teaspoon etc. You could also put in order from smallest to largest multiple measuring cups filled with your ingredients.
Kind Regards,
Monique Soutter
MaST Coordinator
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