Fruit fraction lessons

These 5 lessons targeting students at Years 3-4, can be used as stand alone or as a sequence of lessons to develop understandings and proficiency in recognising and representing unit fractions, such as halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, eighths and tenths. Students use visual aids such as number lines, arrays, and fraction walls to represent, order and compare fractions. 

These lessons were developed in collaboration with the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT). 

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  • Fruits of Asia including papaya, rambutan, pomelo and star fruit
    Fruit fractions: Gardeners of fractions

    In this lesson, students use a simulated garden bed to explore tenths.

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  • Example of fruits: apples, banana, quandong, pineapple and finger lime
    Fruit fractions: Fruit karate

    In this lesson, students use fruit to explore common fractions.

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  • An array of shapes showing fractions of colour
    Fruit fractions: Fruit salad crafty creations

    Students demonstrate knowledge of fractions through creating their very own simulated ‘fruit salad’.

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  • Fruit fractions: Growing with fruit Image
    Fruit fractions: Growing with fruit

    Explore fractions through plant growth in this engaging lesson.

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  • Fruit fractions: Fruit kebab fun Image
    Fruit fractions: Fruit kebab fun

    In this lesson, we use fruit to explore common/decimal fractions relating to tenths.

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