This Y4 lesson by Jon Smedley involves combining maths with physical activity to enthuse pupils about fractions.
Active learning is an easy way to inject energy and fun into a lesson, while increasing pupils’ capacity to remember those important concepts they may have forgotten.
This equivalent fractions lesson has been designed for social distancing – you’ll only need a few resources. It’s just what you need to get pupils fired up about learning maths again.
Curriculum links
- Revise and reinforce equivalent fraction learning
- Increase confidence with fractions
- Understand the role of the numerator and denominator with a fraction
- How to use strategies to identify equivalent fractions
This download contains
- Full PDF lesson plan
Jon Smedley is a former teacher and founder of Teach Active, an award-winning online bank of primary maths and English active learning lesson plans linked to the national curriculum. Follow Teach Active on Twitter at @teachactive. Browse more maths games KS2 ideas.
Similar resources
- Number bonds to 20 worksheet – Free KS1 printable maths PDF
- Shut the box game – Rules and printable board (plus Subitising Snap)
- Worksheet on multiplication of decimals – KS2 maths game
- Measurement KS2 – Exciting cross-curricular paper plane project
- Number formation worksheets – Free 1 to 20 printable PDFs
