Y1

Maths

Find a Half of a Quantity Practical Activities

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Consolidate pupils' understanding of fractions with our Year 1 Find a Half of a Quantity Practical Activities resource. This resource includes a range of engaging activities to set up at tables in your lesson or in your provision areas. Children can practise finding half of different quantities using concrete objects.

Use to support your main teaching within your lesson or to set up as activities for children to access in their self-directed learning. The choice is entirely yours!


Curriculum Objectives

  • Recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity
  • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths and heights [for example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half]; mass/weight [for example, heavy/light, heavier than, lighter than]; capacity and volume [for example, full/empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; Time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]