Step 5 Objective

Simplify fractions by cancelling all common factors and identify equivalent fractions.


What if pupils find this a barrier?

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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.