Fractions:
Matching Bites for Your Child’s Year Group
Here are the Bites that connect directly to Fractions.
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How This Bite Fits Into the Big Picture
Some Bites (individual videos), particularly in the early years, sits within a larger maths idea your child is learning at school, whilst other Bites, particularly in Stages 2 and 3, are completely focused on one big idea.
For example, in Kinder, fractions sit under the big idea of Geometric Measure, and within the smaller concept of Length. Two smaller ideas are explored within the bite, one of them being about fractions. In Year 2, the whole video is about fractions, but it is one in a series, which sits under the same big idea as that in Year 1 and Kinder.
This helps you see how the Bite connects to the Quick Win and how it supports your child’s broader understanding.
Because each maths topic develops differently across the year groups, every Bite includes the exact concepts your child is learning at that stage. What you see listed here is everything unpacked inside that Bite.
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Kindergarten
Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer
Identify the attribute of 'length' as the measure of an object from end to end
Use comparative language to describe length
Compare lengths directly by placing objects side by side and aligning the ends
Explain why the length of a piece of string remains unchanged whether placed in a straight line or a curve
Compare lengths indirectly by copying a length
Create half a length
Divide a length into two equal parts
Distinguish between the halfway point and half a length
Describe positions as 'about halfway', 'more than halfway' or 'less than halfway'
Years 1–2
Geometric Measure - Length - Part 2
Compare lengths using uniform informal units
Compare the lengths of two or more objects using appropriate uniform informal units and check by placing the objects side by side and aligning the ends
Explain why the length of an object remains constant when rearranged
Estimate lengths, indicating the number and type of unit used and check by measuring
Subdivide lengths to find halves and quarters
Use concrete materials to model both half and quarters of a whole length, highlighting the length
Identify two equal parts and the relationship of the parts to the whole length, linking words and images
Recognise when lengths have or have not been divided into halves and quarters
Geometric Measure
Length - Part 3
Repeatedly halve lengths to form eighths
Use materials to model an eighth of a whole length, highlighting the length
Recognise when a length is divided into eight equal parts
Year 3
Partitioned Fractions - Part 1
Create fractional parts of a length using techniques other than repeated halving
Make thirds of a length
Create fifths of a length
Partitioned Fractions - Part 2
Model and represent unit fractions, and their multiples, to a complete whole on a number line
Model fractions with fraction strips and diagrams for halves, quarters, eighths, thirds
Describe fraction families formed by dividing the whole into the same total number of equal parts as having the same denominator
Determine the complementary fractional part needed to complete one whole (halves, quarters, eighths, thirds)
Recreate the whole unit from a fractional part (halves, quarters, eighths, thirds)
Year 4
Partitioned Fractions - Part 1
Model equivalent fractions as lengths
Represent the equivalence of fractions with related denominators as lengths, using concrete materials, diagrams and number lines
Recognise the need to have equal wholes to compare partitioned fractions
Represent fractions with the same-size whole to make valid comparisons (denominators of 2, 4 and 8; 3 and 6; 5 and 10)
Partitioned Fractions - Part 2
Represent fractional quantities equal to and greater than one
Rename 2 halves, 3 thirds, 4 quarters, 5 fifths, 6 sixths, 8 eighths and 10 tenths as one whole
Regroup fractional parts beyond one
Represent totals of halves, thirds, quarters and fifths that extend beyond one
Determine the relative location of one-quarter and one-half when a number line extends beyond one
Year 5
Representing Quantity Fractions - Part 1
Recognise the role of the number 1 as representing the whole
Compare halves and quarters of different sized wholes
Justify the need for fractions to refer to the number 1 as the common whole
Compare and order common unit fractions
Compare unit fractions as numbers to the benchmark value
Compare and order unit fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 by placing them on a number line
Representing Quantity Fractions - Part 2
Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator
Represent the sum of fractions with the same denominator, recreating the whole, where the result may exceed one
Find the difference between fractions with the same denominator and interpret the answer
Solve word problems that involve fractions with the same denominator
Use diagrams, objects and mental strategies to subtract a unit fraction from any whole number including 1 (the complement principle)
Year 6
Representing Quantity Fractions - Part 1
Recognise that a fraction can represent a division
Identify how the relationship between the number being divided and the divisor is represented in a fraction
Build up to the whole from a given fractional part
Generate the whole quantity from non-unit fractional parts such as quarters, eighths, thirds, sixths, fifths and tenths
Representing Quantity Fractions - Part 2
Compare common fractions with related denominators
Order common fractions with related denominators using diagrams and number lines
Subdivide the area of a rectangle by both length and width to represent the multiplicative relationship between common fractions
Compare and represent fractions with denominators of 2, 4 and 8; 3 and 6; 5 and 10 of a whole shape (area model) and a collection of objects (discrete model)
Create equivalent fractions for half in quarters, eighths, sixths and tenths by re-dividing the whole, using diagrams and number lines
Record equivalent fractions using diagrams, words and fraction notation
Representing Quantity Fractions - Part 3
Use equivalence to add and subtract fractional quantities
Solve word problems involving adding or subtracting fractional quantities with related denominators
Represent fractional quantities with the same or related denominators to add and subtract fractions
Representing Quantity Fractions - Part 4
Find fractional quantities of whole numbers (halves, quarters, fifths and tenths)
Calculate quarters and fifths of whole numbers that are multiples of the denominator, using a tape diagram
Solve word problems involving a fraction of a quantity
Find 1/2, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/10 of collections, expressing remainders as decimals
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