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Multiply Fractions by Integers Year 6 Fractions Learning Video Clip

Step 10: Multiply Fractions by Integers Year 6 Fractions Learning Video Clip

Still trapped in Dr S. Cape’s escape room, Roman, Rae and Trig need your help to solve multiplication problems so they can advance to the next part of the challenge.

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Discussion points for teachers

1. Help Roman, Rae and Trig place the cups in the correct places and complete the sticky notes above them.
Discuss how a repeated addition calculation can be completed to find the answer to a multiplication calculation.
The remaining two cups with 5/6 to be placed in the two remaining gaps in the calculation; the completed sticky notes are 20/6 and 25/6

2. How can the repeated addition calculation be represented as a multiplication calculation?
Discuss strategies for identifying how many times the fraction has been added and how that would be written as a multiplication calculation.

3. Help convert the improper fraction to a simplified mixed number.
Discuss the point that questions may specify whether to answer as an improper fraction or mixed number, and the strategies for doing so.

4. Which calculation should they use to find they answer?
Discuss how many photographs are shown compared with how many lots of 2 2/5 seconds have passed.

5. Who do you agree with? Solve the calculation using your chosen method, giving your answer as a simplified mixed number.
Discuss the different approaches to the calculation and whether different strategies result in the same answer. Discuss whether one method is more efficient than another.