Question: Who invented fractions? Answer: Henry the Eighth or was it James the Sixth?
As you can see, fractions can be fun and interesting, but they can also be a bit confusing at times.
In Maths, we have been investigating fractions. We have been looking at the questions such as, ‘What is a fraction?’ and ‘Why do we need fractions?’ This led us onto words such as numerator and denominator and examples of where we use fractions in real life situations. For example,
‘What does half time mean?’
Time….. ‘Quarter past three, Half past six’
Sharing…. ‘Splitting a chocolate bar in half’
We also learned a new word, ‘Equivalent’, which means equal or the same as. The clue is in the word, ‘Equivalent = Equal. To help us with our learning, we used a Daily Milk chocolate bar to work out equivalent fractions. Now it doesn’t matter if we eat half of something or three sixths of something – they are both the same. But if Mr Hunter offered me two quarters of a chocolate bar or nine twelfths of a chocolate bar, I now know which one I would take…..do you?
At the end we all got 2/64th of the bar which was good!
Primary 6
