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Topic: NS3.4 Fractions and Decimals
Compares, orders and calculates with decimals, simple fractions and simple percentages
Adding fractions (animations)
Flash animations that show how we add fractions. Clear animated diagrams promote understanding and correct mathematical working is also demonstrated and explained. There are step-by-step explanations that can be turned off if you are presenting to a class. Free.
Cell Phone Maths
An interactive whiteboard resource to encourage students to apply their maths skills to the real world. 2 types of real world questions can be generated by the resource: percentage discounts and area.
Conceptua Math - Fractions
Conceptua Math provides free online tools for fractions instruction. The site includes interactive fractions models to develop conceptual understanding by linking models to procedures and higher order thinking skills. Ideal for whole-class instruction.
Decention
A game where you have to sort numbers into equivalent groups. Each group contains a fraction, decimal and percentage. Starts off easier and gets harder with each level completed
Decimal Comparison
A clever use of an IWB and character recognition for students to “demonstrate their ability to compare numbers to varying decimal places”.
Dry Socks
This activity may not be in English, but the maths is still the same!
“Hang de sokken in de juiste volgorde aan de lijn” – meaning, “Hang the socks in the correct order on the line”.
Order fractions on a number line.
[Here’s the Google Translation]