Filling in the Gaps by Siua

This week for math my group was working on a fraction worksheet. We were working on equivalent fractions. It is easy because it is just like simplifying fractions. Then we put the fractions in it's simplest form. The hardest thing was filling in the gaps with = or ?.

Improper Fractions get easier by Pareata

This week in maths, group four has been learning to convert improper fractions to mixed fractions.
I already knew it but I just needed to revise on my converting. As we went through the worksheet it got easier and I understood that converting is really easy. e.g : 3 and 3/10 = 33/10 which is an improper fraction.

Moko- Fractions

WALT: find a fraction of a set.

Solve these problems.  Please show your working.

Miki cut a cake into 4 equal pieces. She put frosting on 3 pieces of the cake. What fraction of the cake had frosting?

¾ ✔

There were 11 students in a swimming pool. 9 got out. What fraction of the students got out?

9/11 ✔

Robbie cut a pie into 5 equal slices. Then he ate 4 of the slices. What fraction of the pie did Robbie eat?

5/4  ✔

Bridget had 18 apple pies. She gave 1/2 of what she had to her friend Rosa. How many apple pies did Rosa get?

1/2 of 18 = 18 2 = 9 ✔

Of the 24 students in Ashley's class, ¼ of them have a pet cat and 2/4 also have a dog as a pet. How many students in Ashley's class had a pet cat?

1/4 of 24 =6 ✔

Kuraia had bought 30 cupcakes for her birthday party. One half of them had chocolate icing.  When she got home her little sister ate 1/3 of it.  How many chocolate icing cup cakes had Kuraia bought?

1/2 of 30 = 15 ✔

My niece collected 28 yummy stickers.  Her best friend collected a quarter of what she had.  How many stickers did my niece’s best friend collect?

1/4 of 28 = 7 ✔

There are 32 students in room 10.  Half of them are vegetarian and two quarters wanted to go on a field trip.  How many vegetarian students are there in room 10?

1/2 of 32 = 16  ✔

Gordon had 36 toy cars.  He sold 1/8 of them to his cousin John and his big brother took a quarter of it.  How many toy cars did his big brother take?

1/4 of 36 = 9 ✔

Viliami was given $24 for his birthday.  He went to the mall with his brother, Sione.  Viliami spent ½ of his money on a new pair of jeans and he put the rest into his piggy bank.  How much money did Viliami put into his piggy bank?  

1/2 of 24 = 12 ✔

Anau quickly increased her fraction knowledge playing this game

WALT: find fractions of lengths, including seeing when a fraction is greater than one.

In this game I learnt to match the image to the fractions and then it is much easier to play. I have to put the image on the right answer. This game has taught me about matching fractions.
CLICK HERE TO PLAY