Equivalent Fractions Year 5

This ready-to-teach visual equivalent fractions lesson for Year 5 starts by recapping exactly what a fraction is before exploring equivalent fractions expressed visually using diagrams and fraction walls. The main activity then challenges them to match equivalent fraction diagrams or use the ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equals’ signs to make fraction statements correct, using a fraction wall to help them. The fun alternative activity will ask them questions such as whether they would prefer to eat two thirds or seven twelfths of a bag of chocolate buttons, explaining their answer!

This lesson is part of our Fractions and Proportion Maths scheme of work for Year 5.

This fully prepared Year 5 fractions lesson moves on from using visual representations to find equivalent fractions to teaching your class how to use the relationship between numerators and denominators to find equivalent fractions. They will find out how to multiply the numerator and denominator by the same number to create equivalent fractions, the slides and main activities giving plenty of engaging ways to practise this. There is also a fun game for the alternative activity that will really encourage them to use their multiplication skills to find the most obscure equivalent fractions possible!

This lesson is part of our Fractions and Proportion Maths scheme of work for Year 5.

This ready-to-teach Year 5 Decimals and Fractions lesson starts off by challenging children to think of different ways of expressing the shaded proportion of a shape using fractions and decimals. Children will then go on to recap the value of each digit in numbers with three decimal places, and the difference between proper, improper and mixed number fractions. They are then challenged to find equivalents between decimals and fractions in a variety of forms, and how to convert from one to the other.

This lesson is part of our Decimals and Fractions Maths scheme of work for Year 5.