Today I asked Group 7 (Yr 5/6) to show me fractions in more than one way (multiple representations). This group of students are lacking understanding of the key idea that fractions is about parts of a whole. They are learning that the whole could be five, the whole could be 100, the whole could be a set of objects (discrete), just repeated numbers added together, or even a shape (continuous) but they can all show the same fractional number related to the whole.
In the photos below I asked the students to show me four quarters, this is only the beginning of these lessons so as they progress we will use other materials as well so that they get experience of fractions in many forms.
- The multi-link cubes stuck together are fractions of a shape
- the groups are fractions in sets
- The numbers represent equal sharing creating a whole using numbers
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