Let’s Find Fractions - The Complete Series (5 lessons)

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.