Week Beginning 9th October 2016

Week 5: Multiplication, Division, Fractions

Warm Up:
Double and halve numbers to 100
In pairs take it in turns to shuffle a set of 0
9 cards
Take two to generate a 2-digit number.
Choose to double or halve it and mark it on
a blank 0200 line.
First to get 5 numbers without opponents
numbers in between wins.
Watch first

Activity:
Launch the ITP Number
Grid- follow
instructions on plan

Activity:
In pairs, play the multiples game. Shuffle a
set of 2-9 cards. Pull out two and find a
number in the grid below that is a multiple
of both of these numbers. Take it in turns
until someone gets four in a row.

Warm Up:
Factors Game
We need four teams. Each team agrees on a
2-digit number.
Shuffle and select a number from 1-9 cards.
If the number picked is a factor of your
number, put up your hand and you score a
point.
Repeat but you can change your own 2-digit
number.

Activity:
Numbers with only two factors: themselves
and 1, are called prime numbers.
2 is the smallest prime.
Numbers that have more than themselves and
1 as factors are called composite numbers.
Work out which numbers from 2 to 10 are
primes and which are composites.
Work in pairs to list all the prime numbers from
10 to 20. Now think of one number that has
1, itself and two prime factors, e.g. 15.

Main Activity:
Which numbers from 10 to 30 can be made
by multiplying two prime numbers together.

Main Activity:
We can write any number as a product of
prime numbers. Click on user number and
enter 18 at
http://www.softschools.com/math/factors/fac
tor_tree/
.
Choose a pair of numbers which multiply
together to make 18, press enter, then
break down each factor where possible.
Repeat for numbers such as 12, 28, 30 and
36.

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Activity: Challenge:
Write fractions equivalent to 1/3 which aren't
on the fraction wall. 4/12
We can write this more simply as 1/3.
This is called writing the fraction in its
simplest form. 4 and 12 are both multiples
of 4; 4 is the highest common factor of both.
12/18 How can we simplify this fraction?
18/24, 12/15, 12/18. Write the simplest fraction
of these on your whiteboards.

Main Activity:
Work in pairs. Shuffle a pack of 112 cards
and place face down.
Draw a big dividing line across the middle of
your whiteboard. Take it in turns to take two
and place the smaller above the dividing
line and the larger below to form a fraction
If you can simplify the fraction, you record
the equivalent, e.g. 3/6 = , and score a
point. If their fraction does not simplify, you
score nothing!

Plenary:
/40

23

/100

20

/48

14

/60

14

Which are less than ?

/16

Activity:
2/3 and
Which do you think is the bigger fraction?
Can you prove it?
Teacher: Use two strips of paper to prove it
We cant write 1/3s as 1/4s or vice versa to
show that 2/3 < . But we can write them
as the same sort of fraction. What could
that be?

Activity:
3 and 4 are factors of 12 and so we can write
them both as 1/12s.
Write the denominator 12 on your WBs.
If we multiply the denominator of by 3 to
give 1/12s, we need to multiply the
numerator by 3 also to make sure the
resulting fraction is equivalent.
Repeat with and 3/5, then 1/6 and 2/9.

Main Activity:

Activity:
There are 135 animals in a rescue centre.
1/5 are cats, 3/5 are dogs and the rest are
ponies.
How can we work out the number of cats?
Lets use short division to find 1/5 of 135 on
our w/bs.
How can we find the number of dogs? And
so on.
How can we check our working now?

Activity:
8 children are going paintballing.
The session costs 134;
They pay 1/8 of the cost each.
How much does it cost each?
Use short division to work out 134 8
Agree on the answer.
How could we write this as an amount of
money?

Solve These:
8 people are out for a curry, 5 from one
family and 3 from another. The total cost is
142. One family pays 5/8 of the cost, and the
other 3/8.
Two families, one of 2 and one of 3, are
going away for a weekend in a holiday
cottage. The cost is 246. Work out how
much each family should pay (2/5 and 3/5 of
246).

Finished?:
Have a go
at these.