Fractions Practise Activities

Birthday Cakes – from FIO Baffling Braids to Crazy Cakes!! 

Number Book 2, Level 3

Challenge A Nicole is decorating her birthday cake using red and yellow jelly beans solve the following three problems using the ‘cut out rectangle frames’ 1.    If ¼ = red and the rest are yellow what proportion of the jelly beans are yellow? 2.    If there are a total of 20 jelly beans on the cake, how many red and yellow beans are there? 3.    Nicole made another birthday cake using the same proportions of red and yellow beans. There were 7 red beans. How many beans would there be altogether? How many would be yellow?

Challenge B Using the rectangle shapes only solve this problem There is a third of a birthday cake left over. Moana and Henri want a half of it each. What fraction will they get? Try solving the same problem using the beans [jelly beans] if there was 24 beans spread over the whole cake. What would half of a third be? ½ x ⅓ of 24 beans Draw and record your thinking

Challenge C Tia is decorating her birthday cake using red, yellow and blue jelly beans 1.    If ½ = red, 1/3 = yellow and the rest are blue what proportion of the beans are blue? Use different colour strips to show the half and third on the ‘cut out rectangle frames’. [You might want to arrange the ‘thirds’ strips going horizontal and the ‘half’ strip going vertical] 2.    If there are a total of 24 beans on the cake, how many red, yellow and blue beans are there? 3.    Tia made another birthday cake using the same proportions of red, yellow and blue beans. There were 9 red beans. How many beans were there altogether? How many yellow and blue beans were there? Draw and record your thinking

You could laminate and cut out the three challenges and give the challenge tasks A, B, & C separately at each maths lesson to allow for plenty of student discussion

Fractions Revision

Use your Mathletics booklet that we used in class to revise how fractions work. Jump onto the Mathletics website and do some more revision that way as well.

Then have a go at these problems. When you have finished, get someone at home to make up some similar problems for you.

Example:

You have 16 lollies in a bag. 1/4 are red. The rest are blue. How many blue lollies do you have?

Step 1: Read the question.

Step 2: List all of the key information you have from the problem.

- 16 lollies in total.
- 1/4 are red
- The rest are blue. (What fraction is that?)

Step 3: Figure out the missing information.

- If 1/4 are red and the rest are blue, then 3/4 must be blue.

Step 4: Write the maths equation that you are going to solve.

- 3/4 of 16 =?

Step 5: Solve the maths equation.

-  1/4 of 16 =>  16 divided by 4 = 4.
   So 3/4 => 4 x 3 = 12.

Step 6: Answer the question.

- There are 12 blue lollies.


Problems to try:

1. A farmer has 42 cows in a paddock. 3/7 are brown cows. The rest are black cows. How many black cows are in the paddock?

2. Sally orders 24 burgers at the fish 'n' chip shop. She orders 8 chicken burgers, the rest are fish burgers. What fraction are fish burgers?

3. Room 3 has 27 students. 6/9 are boys. How many girls are there?

Drama Continued.

Reuben has returned from his adventures so the final group was able to preform their play.

Spring is nearly Sprung.

Earlier in the year, each Rm 12-er chose a herb and wrote to explain why it would be a good idea for us to grow it. With Spring almost upon us, it is nearly time to get planting. Let's look back at our initial writing...

Term 1 - Sketching

Isaac and Callahan explain how they created their amazing self-portraits.

The Arts - Drama

As part of our Arts programme, Room 12 has been unleashing their dramatic sides...

In groups of 4, we had to create a dramatic re-telling of a Maori myth or legend.
To be successful we had to make sure:
- All members played a character.
- All members participated with dialogue.
- All voices were clear and loud.
- All members used facial expressions/body language.
- All members knew the play and their role in it.
- The play was a success, and the audience understood the story.

Poetic writing

Inspired by Philippa Werry's poem, Palm Tree. Room 12 wrote their own metaphor-ladden poetry.

SJ P4 N1 2009

Palm Tree

Cluster of exclamation marks - 

astonishment on a stick.

One-legged signpost

pointing everywhere.

Satellite dish

slanted to the sun.

A handful of combs

grooming the clouds.

A kennelful of shaggy dogs

straining on a lead.

A startled starfish

marooned high above the sea.

Hula skirts dancing

all by themselves.

Eighteen arms in droopy sleeves

waving gently in the breeze.

All these things until

the clouds darken,

the wind gets stronger,

the storm gets nearer.

The tree bends low - 

tosses, turns

into a cannon 

firing out lethal 

coconut

cannonballs.

Philippa Werry

Our task:

1. Choose an object.
2. Create five metaphors to describe it.
3. Arrange our metaphors into a poem.

Miss Salt: Cars

Electric pulses racing along blackened wires.

Hungry insects guzzling sap.

Angry bears growling and prowling.

Shiny jewels scattered far and wide.

Metal cheetahs sprinting lonely races.

Joshua H: Bouncy Balls

A bird gliding near the ground.

Sunset rising.

Cheetahs sprinting across the plains.

Armadillos rolling.

Orange kangaroos bouncing.

Eden: Trees

Fingers pointing in different directions.

Cats moulting in summer.

Birds flapping their wings all day long.

Statues scattered, silent and still.

Earthquake building crashed to the ground.

Reuben: Stock cars

A tiger roars when it gets angry.

Mud pools splashing bubbles of mud.

Metal elephants stampeding around the track.

Washing machine tyres spinning around.

Book pages flying.

Colby: Dragons

Hard scaly skin covering the sun.

Fires quick blazing out of a volcano.

Shark's teeth pointing everywhere.

A seagull gliding in the air.

Two legs traveling in the midnight light.

Gemma: A tree

A fledgling trying to fly.

Cat's scratching pole.

Scabbed all over.

A dribbly orthodontic patient.

A paper factory.

Briana: Gorgon

Strom-torn branch planted in the ground.

Misshappen pole topped by a storm.

Waterfall adorned by weeds.

Totem pole covered with grass.

Rotten tree, burning branches first.

Katelyn: Cats

Super fast cars racing to the finish line.
Snakes hissing at their predators.
Turtles walking so slow.
Hair molting when you brush it.
Different colours everywhere, it's a Rainbow fish.