This week the children have started their new topic learning about fractions.

We began this block by understanding the whole and recapping the part-whole relationship of fractions. The children then built on their knowledge of the whole to explore fractions greater than 1.

We then further developed the children’s understanding of mixed numbers and explored partitioning mixed numbers in different ways – a skill that will be vital for later steps in this unit of study. We learnt how mixed numbers are represented on a number line and how to convert mixed numbers into improper fractions and improper fractions to mixed numbers.