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      Home > Topdrawer > Fractions > Good teaching > Dividing > Sharing as division > Dividing pancakes > More sharing diagrams

      More sharing diagrams

      Students solve problems about sharing pancakes equally among people.

      They record the process through sharing diagrams. Students may choose a variety of ways to express the process.

      'Share nine pancakes among 12 people' is a year 6 example that could involve a variety of fractions, including twelfths.

      Nine circles each divided into quarters with each quarter numbered. Written explanation of sharing.

      A student’s sharing diagram.

      Three groups of four stick figures, each group with three pancakes which are subdivided to represent the equal division.

      Another sharing diagram.

      Year 3: Model and represent unit fractions including 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5 and their multiples to a complete whole

      Year 6: Find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, with and without digital technologies

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