{"id":400,"date":"2014-01-24T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:55:24","slug":"fantastic-fractions-in-primary-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/2014\/01\/24\/fantastic-fractions-in-primary-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Fractions in Primary 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week primary 5 have started to look at fractions as our maths topic!<\/p>\n<p>To help us really understand what a fraction is we began our topic by cutting up a huge chocolate cake into halves, then quarters, then eighths, then sixteenths!<\/p>\n<p>Some of us have been creating our own &#8216;Fraction Paths&#8217; by cutting up 1 whole piece of paper into fractions, we were then comparing and coming up with statements about what the paths show us! Have a look at the fantastic effort by Kieran and Hannah in the photo gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us have started looking at comparing equlivent fractions as well! This is when 2 fractions mean the same amount, like 1\/2 is the same as 2\/4!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week primary 5 have started to look at fractions as our maths topic! To help us really understand what a fraction is we began our topic by cutting up a huge chocolate cake into halves, then quarters, then eighths, then sixteenths! Some of us have been creating our own &#8216;Fraction Paths&#8217; by cutting up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/2014\/01\/24\/fantastic-fractions-in-primary-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fantastic Fractions in Primary 5!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7564,164],"tags":[3834,3827,169],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-5-classes","category-school-news","tag-active-maths","tag-fractions","tag-primary-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}