🔢 Mathematics · Ratio & Proportion
Understanding fractions
Solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
Typical age: 10–11 years
“If three friends share a bag of 24 sweets so that one person gets twice as many as each of the others, can your child work out how many each person receives?”
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Needs first
- Simplifying FractionsREQUIRED
Understanding fraction of total requires simplification/common denominator skills
- Bar Models for RatiosREQUIRED
Unequal sharing problems are the canonical use case for tape diagrams — the visual model makes the structure of the problem transparent
- Percentages (age 9+)REQUIRED
Unequal sharing problems require 'ratio', 'unequal', 'part-to-part', and 'proportion' vocabulary
- Ratio ProblemsREQUIRED
Unequal sharing is ratio reasoning in context