Equivalent fractions

Good morning Year 5! I hope you are well and had a lovely 3 day weekend? Did you do anything fun? I went for a lovely bike ride over to Hackney Marshes yesterday, did some planting in our garden, and baked some bread. 

So this week I thought it would be a good idea to go back to basics with fractions. We are going to do it every day this week sp that we can try to get back to the level we were at before school closed. 

First, watch this video:

So we know that the denominator is how many parts there are in total, and the numerator is how many parts of the total.

To find equivalent fractions we can either multiply or divide. The 2 rules we can't forget are: 

1. The denominators have to be the same 

2. Whatever we do to the denominator we do to the numerator. 

Look at these fractions below. First, we need to make the denominators the same. so we divide by 3. 

Then, because we divided the denominator, we now divide the numerator by the SAME number, which was 3. 

These are equivalent fractions. 

Now try with these.