#TheCompleteSeries5lessons
This five-lesson Year 2 Maths scheme of work comes with everything you need to re-introduce your class to fractions, including slides, plans and printable resources.
#Lesson1Halvesandquarters
Re-introduce your class to finding halves and quarters of shapes before investigating some familiar and trickier shapes. Challenge your class to find different ways to halve and quarter shapes and record these as written fractions.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Worksheet
- Shape sheets
- Photo sheet
- Pizza template
- Topping menu
#Lesson2Halvesquartersandthirds
Investigate the meanings of the different numbers in a written fraction and demonstrate how this is shown when finding fractions of shape. Challenge your class to show the same fraction in different ways, beginning to make links between the equivalence of ½ and 2⁄4 .
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Photo sheets
- Domino cards
#Lesson3Fractionsofnumbers
Introduce your class to the concept of finding fractions of amounts, using their understanding of fractions of shapes. Challenge the children to make links between division and finding fractions of numbers by sharing quantities equally between groups.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Photo sheet
- Challenge card
#Lesson4Morethanonequarter
Build on the learning your class has achieved in the previous lesson by exploring how we represent more than one piece of a fraction. Investigate how this looks when showing three quarters of a shape and use this visual to find three quarters of quantities as well.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Photo sheet
#Lesson5FractionProblems
Challenge your class to apply what they’ve learnt about fractions by solving practical problems. Explore different ways that items could be shared by splitting them into fraction pieces to make sure that they’re being shared equally.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Picnic cards
- Challenge cards
- Food cards
- Worksheets
- Photo sheet
- Measurement cards
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Curriculum Objectives covered
- Year 2 - recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/2, 2/4 and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity
- Year 2 - write simple fractions for example, 1/2 of 6 = 3 and recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2
