This week, 3A students have been exploring fractions of shapes and collections .  They have enjoyed participating in meaningful and respectful number talks about fractions, explaining why the fraction is smaller when the denominator is  larger and why fractions must be based on sharing equal parts. Discussion about where we see the use of fractions in everyday life has been interesting. Some ideas discussed included how pizzas are cut up,  chocolate bars, cooking of cakes,  the fuel tank in the car, bags of small packets of chips and fractions of time.  Students have explored fractions using worksheets, counters and collections of stickers, blocks, shapes and buttons. In maths groups,  we included https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/build-a-fraction/latest/build-a-fraction_en.html a game on matching fractions on the computer. Conquering the spelling of fraction vocabulary has encouraged students to  practise using the syllables rule, every syllable will have a vowel in it. Students find denominator, numerator and vinculum are easier to spell when they sound out syllables.