Imagine your team has 12 sliotars to share out fairly. If three players share them equally, how many does each player get? And here is the tricky question: what fraction of all the sliotars does one player end up holding?
Watch the counters get shared into equal groups. The bottom number of the fraction tells us how many groups to make. Predict how many land in each group before it reveals.
Today we work through these together on the equal-groups tool: one half of 6, one third of 12, one quarter of 8, and one fifth of 10. Each time we share the whole set into the number of equal groups the bottom of the fraction asks for, then read off how many are in one group.
In your maths copy, draw 8 counters and ring them into 2 equal groups. Write underneath: one half of 8 = 4. Then draw 6 counters, ring them into 3 equal groups, and write one third of 6 = 2.
Today we work through these numbers together: one half of 14, one quarter of 16, one third of 15, and one fifth of 20. For each one, share the whole set into equal groups, read one group, and record it as "fraction of number = answer".
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