Lesson Four – Mixed Fractions
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how to convert a selection of different mixed number fractions into their matching improper fractions by updating the numerators.
The class can identify and explain how to use diagrams and calculations to show how to make each of the fraction conversions between mixed number and improper fractions.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record how to convert a selection of different mixed number fractions into their matching improper fractions by updating the numerators
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and record how to convert different mixed number fractions into improper fractions using diagrams and calculations to indicate changes to the values of the denominators.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to convert different mixed number fractions into improper fractions.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify and illustrate how to change and convert the values of different fractions using equivalence, simplification and conversion between mixed and improper fractions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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