Fractions

Year 6 have been working with fractions for the past 4 weeks! Within these lessons, the children have been learning to calculate but have also been focusing on using their fraction sense to determine whether a calculation is actually needed. This has been quite a tricky concept to grasp but they have worked so hard to understand what fractions mean in all ways possible. On this occasion, the children were rolling a 9 sided dice (twice each) to create proper fractions. Their partner then had to do the same. Using their fraction sense, or a quick calculation where fraction sense did not help, they had to decide which fraction was closest to half. The person with the fraction closest to half scored 1 point. If the fraction was exactly half, they scored 2 points.