Step 5 Objective
Simplify fractions by cancelling all common factors and identify equivalent fractions.
- Examples of what pupils should
know and be able to do - Probing questions
- What if pupils find
this a barrier?
What if pupils find this a barrier?
Pupils need to develop the idea of equivalence – expressing a fraction in as many ways as they can – and to begin to recognise how to find specific equivalent fractions, i.e. those with particular denominators.
Use matching activities to get pupils, in pairs, to sort fractions into equivalent sets.