Y6

Maths

Add and Subtract any Two Fractions Supporting Activity

Practical
Teacher-led
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Teach children how to add and subtract fractions in a fun and practical way with this Year 6 Add and Subtract any Two Fractions Supporting Activity. The resource includes a teacher-led activity that involves children rolling dice to generate fractions.

Use in class as part of your teaching or as an intervention! The choice is yours. We recommend using our other resources for this lesson, too, which include a modelling PowerPoint, a varied fluency worksheet and a reasoning and problem-solving worksheet.


Curriculum Objectives

  • Use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
  • Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers, using the concept of equivalent fractions
  • Recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts