Maths Learning - Week Beginning 18th January 2016

This week we have been looking at fractions.  Particularly halves and quarters, how to write these as a number and the importance of fractions being an equal part of a whole.  We have tried to link this to our recent work on division so that the children can begin to see how the two topics link together.  When you are cutting up and sharing things at home such as fruit, cakes, pizza etc encourage your child to explain what fraction they are cutting and how they can make the pieces evenly sized.  For example for quarters they could halve and then halve again.  Next week we will be moving on to finding fractions of a length, quantity and playing some fraction games.