Understanding fractions
Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
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“If three friends share a bag of 24 sweets so that one person gets twice as many as each of the others, can your child work out how many each person receives?”
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- Activity. Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
What to notice. Share 40 sweets between two children in the ratio 3:5 • Solve: 'Tom gets twice as many as Sam and Sam gets three times as many as Jo. If there are 30 altogether, how many does each get?' • Use fraction knowledge to explain why sharing in ratio 2:3 means one person gets 2/5 of the total
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If three friends share a bag of 24 sweets so that one person gets twice as many as each of the others, can your child work out how many each person receives?
Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
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- Share 40 sweets between two children in the ratio 3:5
- Solve: 'Tom gets twice as many as Sam and Sam gets three times as many as Jo. If there are 30 altogether, how many does each get?'
- Use fraction knowledge to explain why sharing in ratio 2:3 means one person gets 2/5 of the total
“If three friends share a bag of 24 sweets so that one person gets twice as many as each of the others, can your child work out how many each person receives?”
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- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Ratio & Proportion
- Age range
- Ages 10–11