12th June 2012

Photo Log 30: WALT find fractions of a set.

 We used unifix cubes to support our thinking.

 When finding thirds of a whole, you must have three equal parts.

Four birds shared a 20-cube worm. They each got

one-quarter. How much of the worm was that?

 

We know that half of one-half is one-quarter. 

So, first we halved the 20-cube worm and then halved each half.

We ended up with four equal sections of the worm.

So we know that each bird gets 5 cubes of the whole worm.

Photographer for the day: Mrs de Borst