Free Year 5 Fractions Consolidation Steps 1, 2 and 3

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Step 1, 2 and 3: Free Year 5 Fractions Consolidation of Steps 1, 2 and 3

Giuseppe is a pizza chef selling his pizzas at a local food market. He receives an order that requires the knowledge of equivalent fractions to calculate how many slices of his pizza should have olives on. The next day he tries to sell a new creation of pizza. He needs help to work out the fraction of pizza he has to sell as an improper fraction, so that he knows how many slices he has. At the end of the day, he needs to calculate how much pizza he has left as a mixed number.

This Learning Video Clip has been designed as a consolidation tool for steps 1, 2 and 3. It contains content relevant to all these steps and can be used in parts to recap a particular step on its own at the end of a teaching sequence for the included steps.

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Discussion points for teachers

1. Help Giuseppe to work out how many slices he needs to put olives on.
Discuss the relation and equivalence of eighths and twelfths to quarters. Identify the fractions as equivalent fractions in a number sentence.

2. Help Giuseppe to calculate his pizza from a mixed number into an improper fraction.
Discuss the method to convert mixed numbers to improper fractions.

3. Complete Giuseppe’s statement showing how many slices of pizza he needs.
Discuss what Giuseppe’s statement shows and which clues refer to which part in the improper fraction (numerator and denominator). This question is open ended for the children to explore.

4. How much pizza is this as a mixed number?
Discuss the method to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.

National Curriculum Objectives

Mathematics Year 5: (5F2b) Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
Mathematics Year 5: (5F2a) Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements > 1 as a mixed number [for example, 2/5 + 4/5 = 6/5 = 1  1/5 ]
Mathematics Year 5: (5F2a) Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements > 1 as a mixed number [for example, 2/5 + 4/5 = 6/5 = 1  1/5 ]

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