Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Thursday 16th June – Fractions of type questions

LEARNING
OBJECTIVE: TO learn how to solve "Fractions of.." type questions

SUCCESS
CRITERIA: You will be able to solve "Fractions of.." type questions without a calculator

STARTER: Subtraction Crossword Puzzle

LESSON: Can you do this division sums

REMEMBER You can think of 25 ÷ 5 as £25 shared equally between 5 people how much do they get each

20 ÷ 5

20 ÷ 4

42 ÷ 6

70 ÷ 10

48 ÷ 12

99 ÷ 11

 
 

Examples

What is 4/5 of 20

What is 3/10 of 70

What is ¾ of 20

What is 5/12 of 48

What is 5/6 of 42

What is 6/11 of 99

 
 

QUESTIONS

Can you work out the following "Fractions of" questions

What is 3/7 of 21 = 9

What is 4/5 of 25 = 20

What is 3/8 of 32 = 12

What is 5/6 of 24 = 20

What is 2/3 of 21

What is 3/11 of 77

What is 7/10 of 110

What is 5/8 of 40

 
 

21 x 2/3 is the same as 2/3 of 21

35 x 4/5 is the same as 4/5 of 35

21 x 5/6 is the same as 5/7 of 21

Can you now solve these problems

24 x ¾

35 x 4/5

60 x 5/6

27 x 5/9

100 x 3/5

210 x 3/10

250 x 3/50

300 x 2/15

 
 

PLENARY: I set off in my car to London which is 200 miles from Leeds. My car broke down after 2/5 ths of the journey. How far was I from Leeds


  

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