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Whitehouse Primary School, 2 Doagh Rd, Newtownabbey

Y5 Learning with Smarties!

27th Feb 2017

In both P5 rooms, we were learning all about fractions.

We discussed what we could remember from our learning in previous years.  We thought about how fractions were all about dividing up a whole thing, into equal parts. 

We then heard about the bottom number of a fraction being the denominator and it represented how many pieces the whole was divided into.  We then went on to talk about the numerator being the top number and  that it tells about how many parts of the whole, we are using.

Then came the fun part!

We were all given a mini box of smarties.  We had to count how many sweets were in our box and this became the denominator of our fraction work.  Then we had to count how many of each colour we had and record it as a fraction.  For example, if Naomi had 45 smarties and she counted 8 orange ones, then she had 8/45 orange smarties in her box.

We all revised and learnt a lot about fractions today, but the best bit was when we were told we could eat our box of smarties.

Look at all these hard working mathematicians!

 
 
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