Understanding and using fractions is an increasingly important skill in KS2 as it lays the foundation for a wide range of essential mathematical concepts that students will use throughout their lives.
By the end of KS1, children should be able to:
- recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity
- write simple fractions for example, 1/2 of 6 = 3 and recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2
During Year 3, in line with the National Curriculum, children are taught to:
- count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10
- recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
- recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
- recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
- add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole [for example, 5/7 + 1/7 = 6/7]
- compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators
- solve problems that involve all of the above